The difficulties of inconceivability arguments.
This paper presents a critical examination of various kinds of inconceivability arguments, namely inferences from the inconceivability of a particular claim to its impossibility. Since the word “inconceivability” is ambiguous, I will try to summarize its different senses and give relatively fine-gra...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 4; pp. 1 - 20 |
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