Existence and Modality
Truthmakers and modality
... the existence of unnecessary evil appears to be incompatible with the existence of a wholly good, omnipotent, omniscient being, God’s necessary existence rules out even the possibility of unnecessary ...
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Modality and paradox
... In the face of this, it looks like we must reject (H) as well as similar principles for other disperse kinds: if K is non-modular, then there is some cardinal , we know not which, such that it is just not possible for ...
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Persistence and modality
... its existence does survive? Doesn’t the explanation of why the statue and the piece of clay ‘go their separate ways’ in the temporary coincidence case require a genuine difference in their modal properties, and ...
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Coincidence and modality
... Case 5. Statue-shaped Coin: Similarly, rst consider a statue-shaped al- loy; then consider an alloy coin; at last consider a statue-shaped coin. A coin, a statue and a piece of alloy coincide with one another. Given the ...
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Urban Modality:
... the existence of typologies suitable for those specific contexts and the adequacy of the methods in research and practice to cope with the dynamic nature of the ...
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The Epistemology of Modality
... dual of a priority: it is, in the relevant sense, conceivable that p iff it is not a priori that it is not the case that p. We’ll say that p is Chalmers-conceivable iff p is conceivable in this sense. In Chalmers’s ...
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Math, Models and Modality
... the existence of mathematical entities – the ‘‘frog and mouse battle’’ as Einstein once called a specific instance of such debate – and even the fact that mathematicians who are badgered with skeptical questions ...
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Conceivability, Apriority and Modality
... Of course, m, in virtue of being a mathematical truth, is necessarily true as well as being a priori. So what about the contingent a priori? Well, here one might argue that e`` is just such a proposition; in virtue of ...
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Sortal concepts and modality
... 4. Beyond the de dicto? If it were the case that no such additional appeal to the de re is needed, this would be a remarkable result. For it is standardly assumed that the fact that a thing has certain persistence ...
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Some problems in testing for modality
... of modality plays an important role in many applications, rang ing from the study of fundamental scientific theories about the structure of the universe and the existence of new elementary particles to ...
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The Ontological Ground of the Alethic Modality
... the existence of worlds and ...for modality only insofar as: (1) each individual meets the modal condition of being possible and (2) the set of them meets the modal condition of being ...prior ...
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Plantinga, Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality
... the existence of these persons or ...the existence of a real person—Henry Kissinger, let us say—detailing his adventures in a state of affairs quite different from the actual world, or whether it only ...
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Modality
... -EĞER İÇİNDE BULUNULAN DURUMDAN MEMNUNİYETSİZLİĞİ ANLATMAK İÇİN KONUŞMA ANINA GÖNDERME YPAACAĞI İÇİN KENDİNDEN SONRA ”BE VING” YAPISI GETİRİLEREK KULLANILI[r] ...
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Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations.
... understanding modality- generality of hallucinations offers a way of building on existing insights about mechanism, and showing how constituent pro- cesses interact flexibly in creating overarching functional ...
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Modality & Trines
... The four is seen in its relevance to the actuality of man's situation in the cosmos if we trace the origin and evolution of manifest life by the simplest symbolic forms. At the beginning of an epoch of manifestation, ...
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Counterfactuals and modality
... · Modality · Discourse This essay calls attention to a set of linguistic interactions between counterfactual conditionals, on one hand, and possibility modals like could have and might have, on the ...
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Assertion and Modality
... My assignment for this handbook — to write about assertion and modal- ity — presupposes that there is an interesting connection between these two. That presupposition alone might, at first, seem surprising. We do not ...
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Dispositional modality
... something else did not counteract it on our behalf, so there is no necessity in it doing so. We have thereby acquired the idea that the wind has a disposition, tendency or power to blow us over, complete with its sui ...
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Bounded Modality
... It is, finally, worth pointing out that, whatever our entry for disjunction, the symmetric dynamic conjunc- tion sits very poorly with one of the characteristic ambitions of the dynamic framework in which the update ...
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