Two-dimensional semantics aims to eliminate the puzzle of necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori truths. Recently
many argue that even assuming two-dimensional semantics we are left with the puzzle of necessary and a posteriori propositions.
Stephen Yablo (
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
81, 98–122,
2000) and Penelope Mackie (
Analysis,
62(3), 225–236,
2002) argue that a plausible sense of “knowing which” lets us know the object of such a proposition, and yet its necessity is
“hidden” and thus a posteriori. This paper answers this objection; I argue that given two-dimensional semantics you cannot
know a
necessary proposition without knowing that it is true.
Keywords Two-dimensionalism - Externalism - Content - Sense - Knowing which