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The Metaphysics of Modality (Clarendon Library of Logic & Philosophy) Book

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 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.Read More

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  • 0198244339
  • 9780198244332
  • Graeme Forbes
  • 11 September 1986
  • Oxford University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New edition
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