Analysis Advance Access originally published online on July 2, 2009
Analysis 2009 69(4):653-655; doi:10.1093/analys/anp092
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Pierre and circumspection in belief-formation
The University of Kent Kent CT2 7NF, UK L.Goldstein@kent.ac.uk
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In a well-known story constructed by Saul Kripke (1979), Pierre, a rational but monolingual Frenchman who has never visited England, acquires, on the evidence of many magazine pictures of London, the belief that London is beautiful. He is happy to declare Londres est jolie. Pierre eventually moves to England and settles in one of the seedier areas of London, travelling only to comparably shabby