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Modal Logic as Metaphysics

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Modal Logic as Metaphysics

By Timothy Williamson

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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying thetechnical resources of modal logic to provid...Show more

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9780198709435

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Oxford University Press

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2015

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Modal Logic as Metaphysics

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