Modal Realism, Still At Your Convenience

Mark Jago; Harold Noonan

Modal Realism, Still At Your Convenience

Analysis:anx037 (2016)

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Abstract

Divers (2014) presents a set of de re modal truths which, he claims, are inconvenient for Lewisean modal realism. We argue that there is no inconvenience for Lewis.

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modality David Lewis John Divers possible worlds spatiotemporal relations

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Essentialism and De Re Modality, Misc in Metaphysics

Metaphysical Necessity in Metaphysics

Modal Realism in Metaphysics

Possible World Semantics in Philosophy of Language

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