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100	1	0	_aSoutif, Ludovic _eauthor
245	0	0	_aSingular thought and a normative conception of acquaintance
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520			_aIn this paper, I discuss the view tentatively put forward by François Recanati in Mental Files to make two potentially contradictory claims compatible: the claim to the effect that acquaintance is a necessary condition of singular thought and the claim that we do entertain acquaintanceless singular thoughts (i.e., thoughts directed at particulars as particulars). Key to this proposal is a normative construal of the acquaintance constraint. I show that the proposal as it stands is wanting, first, because the norm the users of descriptive names are subject to has no (determinate) conditions of satisfaction in that framework; second, because the kind of mental simulation involved in exploiting the norm in this type of case is misdescribed as a “local lapse into fiction”; and third, because it leaves the issue pertaining to the conditions of satisfaction of the acquaintance norm in time unaddressed.
786	0		_nLes Études philosophiques | o 130 | 3 | 2019-08-06 | p. 403-419 | 0014-2166
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-les-etudes-philosophiques-2019-3-page-403?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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