Necessary beings an essay on ontology, modality, and the relations between them

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essence...

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Main Author: Hale, Bob
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2014, 2014
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