Third Paper, due Monday, April 7^th

Your assignment is to explain Dummett's criticism of Kripke's idea that there are contingent a priori truths. The relevant passage is centered around pages 121-126 of Dummett's: "Appendix to Chapter 5" of Frege: Philosophy of Language

• The paper should be 1000-1500 words long (not including long quotes from the texts---which, if they occur, should be singlespaced and set off from the main body of the paper with indentation). The paper should be one-and-a-half or double-spaced, with ample margins (1 inch on top and bottom; 1.25 inches on left and right), ample font size (at least 11pt), and page numbers.

• Please be as concise and clear as possible. You are to write a purely exigetical paper. Your paper should have the title "Phil 332: Third Paper" (or something similar). This is to remind you that you are turning in a homework assignment for a philosophy class, not an philosophy article to be submitted for publication. Your assignment is very specific, and if you do some other assignment instead (such as writing about Dummett's views on realism) you will not get a good grade.

  You must avoid long discussions or summaries of material not directly related to the assigned question. In the past, some of you have done this sort of thing apparently in order to meet the minimum length, while others of you have gone well over the maximum length in order to go into detail about material you weren't asked to discuss.

  Writing a short, clear, concise, accurate description of someone else's views is a very difficult skill to acquire, and it's what I'm trying to get you to work on. Having this skill (for those of you who might be interested in going on in philosophy) is a necessary condition of writing publishable philosophy articles. For those of you not interested in going on in philosophy, having this skill is a necessary condition of doing any job well that involves writing.

• You must avoid plagiarism at all cost. So always err on the safe side by putting things in your own words whenever possible, and putting things that aren't your own words in quotes, "like this," with texts and page numbers cited where appropriate, and giving proper attribution when presenting someone else's ideas (even if found on the web!!!!!).

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