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Showing posts with label modality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modality. Show all posts
Monday, 11 December 2017

Contingent Examples of Term-Relative Intrinsicality?

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Zylstra's work shows that, if we are going to try to analyze essence in terms of necessity and intrinsicality and deliver the goods on...
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Saturday, 9 December 2017

Sticking Up for 'Essence = Necessity + Intrinsicality' in the Face of Zylstra's Argument

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Followup: Contingent Examples of Term-Relative Intrinsicality? UPDATE 11/12/2017: The more I think about Zylstra's argument, the more ...
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Thursday, 9 November 2017

Two-Dimensional Semantics and Counterfactual Invariance Deciders

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For a long time I have wondered, with an uneasy feeling that there was something I couldn't see, about the relationship between two-dime...
Monday, 6 November 2017

Old Account May Not Be False After All, But New One Still Better (and New Frontier: Relation to Two-Dimensionalism)

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Last Thursday I gave a talk at Sydney University's philosophy department about Kipper's bombshell , my old account of necessity, and...
Saturday, 6 May 2017

The Pre-Kripkean Puzzles are Back

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Yes, but does Nature have no say at all here?! Yes. It is just that she makes herself heard in a different way. Wittgenstein (MS 137). ...
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Saturday, 24 December 2016

What Are My Problems Now?

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This is a follow-up to What Was My Problem? . 1. The Basis of Puzzlement about Modality One line of investigation I would like to pursue...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Five Objections to Sider's Quasi-Conventionalism About Modality

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There are a couple of infelicities in the b elow which have been fixed in the version of this material appearing in chapter 4 of my PhD th...
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Saturday, 13 February 2016

Sider's Quasi-Conventionalism About Modality

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Starting in his (2003), and in an unpublished draft from around the same time which is not to be cited, Theodore Sider has proposed a theor...
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