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Necessity and Triviality.

In this paper I argue that there are some sentences whose truth makes no demands on the world, being trivially true in that their truth-conditions are trivially met. I argue that this does not amount to their truth-conditions being met necessarily: we need a non-modal understanding of the notion of...

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Published in:Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 401 - 416
Main Author: Cameron, RossP.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2010
Subjects:
Necessity (Philosophy)
Philosophy of language
Truth
Sentences (Grammar)
Tropes (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mathematics
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