Modeling Unicorns and Dead Cats: Applying Bressan’s ML to the Necessary Properties of Non-existent Objects.
Should objects count as necessarily having certain properties, despite their not having those properties when they do not exist? For example, should a cat that passes out of existence, and so no longer is a cat, nonetheless count as <italic>necessarily</italic> being a cat? In this essay I examine d...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 95 - 122 |
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