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The Metaphysics of Modality

By Graeme Forbes

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1985
ISBN
0198244339, 0198244320
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14756739 bytes)
Series
Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
272\276
Time added
2024-08-01 14:32:11

Description

Analytic philosophy has recently demonstrated a revived interest in metaphysical problems about possibility and necessity. Graeme Forbes here provides a careful description of the logical background of recent work in this area for those who may be unfamiliar with it, moving on to d discuss the distinction between modality de re and modality de dicto and the ontological commitments of possible worlds semantics. In addition, Forbes offers a unified theory of the essential properties of sets, organisms, artefacts, substances, and events, based on the doctrine that identity facts must be intrinsically grounded, and analyzes and rejects apparent counterexamples to this doctrine.

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