The (perennial) problem of the Rupture with our (recent or remote) epistemological past. The distinction of truths into necessary and contingent (Leibniz). The employment of the distinction by Hume in his criticism of causality. Kant’s concept of synthetic a priori. Rupture as a conflict with truths of reason (necessary). The contextualist account of Analyticity. The refutation of Quine. Incommensurability as the conflict with a topical truth. The philosophy of J. L. Austin. The Darwinian view of language. Locution. Illocution and Perlocution. The suppression of Rupture.
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