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On Williamson and simplicity in modal logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Theodore Sider
Theodore Sider*
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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Abstract

According to Timothy Williamson, we should accept the simplest and most powerful second-order modal logic, and as a result accept an ontology of "bare possibilia". This general method for extracting ontology from logic is salutary, but its application in this case depends on a questionable assumption: that modality is a fundamental feature of the world.

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Williamsonmodalityfundamentalitynecessitism
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 46 , Issue 4-5: Special Issue: Williamson on Modality , August 2016 , pp. 683 - 698
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2016

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