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Physical modality, laws, and counterfactuals.

Standard philosophical accounts attempt to understand physical modality either in terms of special metaphysical entities and relationships ("relations between universals", "powers", "dispositions") or in terms of the organization of non-modal information, as in Best Systems Analysis. This paper defe...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 197; no. 5; pp. 1907 - 1930
Main Author: Woodward, James
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature May2020
Subjects:
Modal logic
Information organization
System analysis
Accounting standards
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