Is Kripke’s Meter Sentence A Priori?

Marco Ruffino has proposed that Kripke’s meter sentence is a priori because the fact it describes is created in a performative declarative speech act by the stipulator. I criticize the idea that the fact described is created by the stipulator, and go on to criticize also Kripke’s view in unpublished work, that even if his original meter sentence is not a priori, a suitable conditional variation is.