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...
| Published in: | Erkenntnis Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 685 - 704 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2024
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| Summary: | 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 existence of the actual cosmos. I further argue that, if the modalized thesis is true, and the actual cosmos necessarily exists, then the only possible concrete objects are the actually existing ones. |
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