Modal metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates the metaphysics underlying statements about possible or necessary statements. Modal logic...
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features that different particulars have in common, like the color red. Modal metaphysics examines what it means for something to be possible or necessary....
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Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Modality, New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Modal Logic: A Contemporary View"...
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Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 15 November 2020. Ross, James F. “The Crash of Modal Metaphysics.” The Review of Metaphysics...
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Ontology (redirect from Metaphysics Ontology)
Hamlyn 2005, p. 591 Look 2020, § 4. Metaphysics: A Primer on Substance Menzel 2023, 1. Possible Worlds and Modal Logic Robinson & Weir 2024, § 2.5.1 Locke...
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University Press, p. 96 Metaphysical necessity at PhilPapers Modal Metaphysics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Modal Illusions article in...
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Extended modal realism is a metaphysical theory developed by Takashi Yagisawa. It concerns the question of what it means that something is possible or...
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Nonexistent objects (redirect from Metaphysical extravagance)
In metaphysics and ontology, nonexistent objects are a concept advanced by Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong in the 19th and 20th centuries within...
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Actualism (redirect from Modal actualism)
x. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Mellor, D. H. "Real Metaphysics: Replies". Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour...
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modality is often seen as a window into broader metaphysical notions of necessity and possibility. Modal expressions come in different categories called...
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Necessity of identity (category Modal metaphysics)
In modal logic, the necessity of identity is the thesis that for every object x and object y, if x and y are the same object, it is necessary that x and...
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Philosophical logic (section Alethic modal)
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 25 November 2021. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...
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Meinongian argument (category Modal metaphysics)
The Meinongian argument is a type of ontological argument or an "a priori argument" that seeks to prove the existence of God. This is through an assertion...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (redirect from Leibniz's metaphysics)
Causation". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Horn, Joshua. "Leibniz: Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jorarti, Julia. "Leibniz: Philosophy...
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Subjunctive possibility (redirect from Metaphysical possibility)
Subjunctive possibility (also called alethic possibility) is a form of modality studied in modal logic. Subjunctive possibilities are the sorts of possibilities...
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Modal fictionalism is a term used in philosophy, and more specifically in the metaphysics of modality, to describe the position that holds that modality...
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Counterpart theory (category Modal metaphysics)
area of metaphysics, counterpart theory is an alternative to standard (Kripkean) possible-worlds semantics for interpreting quantified modal logic. Counterpart...
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possible, it follows that it exists actually". S5 is also the modal system for the metaphysics of saint Thomas Aquinas and in particular for the Five Ways...
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Philosophy of logic (section Metaphysics of logic)
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 25 November 2021. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...
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Possible world (category Modal logic)
semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy, with modal realists such as David Lewis...
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World (section Theories of modality)
89h3510H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.083510. S2CID 118371273. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 9 April 2021. Menzel...
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Extension (semantics) (category Modal metaphysics)
particular instances of a database. There is an ongoing controversy in metaphysics about whether or not there are, in addition to actual, existing things...
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Philosophical realism (redirect from Objectivism (metaphysics))
beholder. This includes a number of positions within epistemology and metaphysics which express that a given thing instead exists independently of knowledge...
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Two-dimensionalism (redirect from Two-dimensional modal semantics)
between) epistemic and modal domains" in arguing from knowability or epistemic conceivability to what is necessary or possible (modalities). The reason Chalmers...
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Noneism (redirect from Modal Meinongianism)
Noneism, also known in philosophy as modal Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong), names both a philosophical theory and an unrelated religious trend...
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Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Mellor, D. H. (2003). "Real Metaphysics: Replies". Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour...
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Existence (category Metaphysical properties)
Jubien 2004, pp. 49–50 Lowe 2005, Existence Weatherson 2021, § 6. Modal Metaphysics Lowe 2005, Existence Casati & Fujikawa, Lead Section, §4. Why Is There...
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Conceptual necessity (category Modal metaphysics)
www.semanticscholar.org. Retrieved 2024-12-20. "Notes to Spinoza's Modal Metaphysics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2013. Retrieved May 9, 2014...
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Clifton, R., 1998, "Lorentz-invariance in modal interpretations" in Dieks, D. and Vermaas, P., eds., The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Dordrecht:...
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Necessitarianism (category Modal metaphysics)
Necessitarianism is a metaphysical principle that denies all mere possibility; there is exactly one way for the world to be. It is the strongest member...
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