On the Probability of Plenitude

Journal of Philosophy 117 (5):267-292 (2020)
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Abstract

I examine what the mathematical theory of random structures can teach us about the probability of Plenitude, a thesis closely related to David Lewis's modal realism. Given some natural assumptions, Plenitude is reasonably probable a priori, but in principle it can be (and plausibly it has been) empirically disconfirmed—not by any general qualitative evidence, but rather by our de re evidence.

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Jeffrey Sanford Russell
University of Southern California

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