Mere possibilities : metaphysical foundations of modal semantics / Robert Stalnaker.

"It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if...

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Main Author: Stalnaker, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Series:Carl G. Hempel lecture series.
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