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580Modal Truth : Integrating the Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Semantics of the Necessary and the PossibleDissertation, University of Washington. 2016.The integration challenge for modality states that metaphysical theories of modality tend to fail in one of two ways: either they render the meanings of modal sentences mysterious, or they render modal knowledge mysterious. I argue that there are specific semantic and epistemic constraints on metaphysics implied by the integration challenge and that a plausible metaphysical theory of modality will satisfy both of them. I further argue that no popular metaphysical theory of modality simultaneousl…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
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