On the Necessity of Priority Monism.

Priority monism is the doctrine that there is only one basic object. Priority monists often take this to be a metaphysically necessary thesis. I explore the consequences of modalizing the priority monist thesis. I argue that, modulo some assumptions, the modalized thesis entails the necessary existe...

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Publicado en:Erkenntnis Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 685 - 704
Autor principal: Harrop, Stephen
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2024
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