Finean essence, local necessity, and pure logical properties.
Since Kit Fine published his famous counter-examples to the modal account of essence, numerous modalists have proposed to avoid the counter-examples by revising the modal account. A sophisticated revision has been put forward by Fabrice Correia. Drawing on themes from Prior’s modality, Correia has i...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 11; pp. 4997 - 5006 |
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