Powered properties, modal continuity, and the patchwork principle.
The principle of modal continuity has become an increasingly popular bit of modal epistemology, featuring prominently in debates about mereology, value, causation, and theism. It claims, roughly, that degreed properties are modally unified. So, if the property of being three inches tall is exemplifi...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 2; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=178547128&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 178547128 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2024 vid: 204 iid: 2 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 178547128 10.1007/s11229-024-04696-8 ppf: 1 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1020KB tig: atl: Powered properties, modal continuity, and the patchwork principle. aug: au: Dagher, Ibrahim affil: https://ror.org/03v76x132 Yale University & Yale Law School, 451 College St, 06511, New Haven, CT, US sug: keyword: Modal continuity Modal epistemology Patchwork principle Plenitude ab: The principle of modal continuity has become an increasingly popular bit of modal epistemology, featuring prominently in debates about mereology, value, causation, and theism. It claims, roughly, that degreed properties are modally unified. So, if the property of being three inches tall is exemplifiable, so is the property of being four inches tall, and five inches tall, etc. Despite its plausibility, in this paper I show that there is a class of counterexamples to modal continuity: what I call ‘powered properties.’ More surprisingly, I show that an instance of these powered properties is entailed by another widely popular family of modal principles: the Lewisian patchwork principles, also known as cut-and-paste, or recombination, principles. Thus, despite appearing to be similar, and motivated by plenitudinous intuitions about the nature of modality, it turns out that the continuity and recombination approaches to modality rely on crucially different pictures of plenitude. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2024. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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