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The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

By Charles S. Chihara

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2001
ISBN
0199246556, 9780199246557
Open Library ID
OL7403640M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20553390 bytes)
Pages
355\355
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

This book is truly awful. It's an attack on Platinga and Forbes' views (well, and of course Lewis as well) concerning actualism, possibilism, modal realism, and related areas. It is poorly written, the arguments are unconvincing, and the logic, where it occurs, is unmotivated and uninteresting. There is virtually nothing novel to be found in the whole book, though I confess to not having read the *whole* thing. I made it roughly half way, and that was quite unbearable. I even read reviews and went over the stuff that was supposedly interesting, but it turned out just more of the same crap.

The book hardly even deserves a review, except to warn others with a serious interest in metaphysics and good philosophy to avoid it. And with that I shall close.

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