Non-Persistent Truths? [Critical Note]
Issue: Issue 18 • Author/s: Ernesto Napoli
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophical logic, Philosophy of language, Theoretical philosophy
I argue that the semantic route to the revisability of the future indicated by Bonomi disappoints the expectations. Bonomi makes a lot of a confessed peculiar use of ‘no longer’. The use is indeed peculiar, not to say out of the question. Any statement of “The F is no longer G” is about a change in a subject. Bonomi sets up a scenario in which there is a change of subject and the new subject does not have the property that the old subject had. A scenario in which a…