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...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 197; no. 5; pp. 1907 - 1930 |
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