Full Idea
A statement can be (metaphysically) necessary and epistemologically contingent. Human intuition has no privileged access to metaphysical necessity.
Gist of Idea
A statement can be metaphysically necessary and epistemologically contingent
Source
Hilary Putnam (Meaning and Reference [1973], p.160)
Book Reference
'Meaning and Reference', ed/tr. Moore,A.W. [OUP 1993], p.160
A Reaction
The terminology here is dangerously confusing. 'Contingent' is a term which (as Kripke insists) refers to reality, not to our epistemological abilities. The locution of adding the phrase "for all I know" seems to handle the problem better.