Actuality and necessity – a puzzle about modality
- In a recent paper – “A Priori Arguments for Determinism/Universal Necessity, and the Leibnizian Theodicy” – I considered, among other arguments for determinism, a modal argument which I called “the World-Argument.” I here repeat that argument in informal terms. I will then focus exclusively on the issues it raises in modal logic and in the metaphysics of modality; Leibnizian themes, prominent in “A Priori Arguments …,” are marginal in the present paper.
| Author: | Uwe Meixner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1028031 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/102803 |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2023/03/15 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 9 |
| Institutes: | Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Philosophie | |
| Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Philosophie / Lehrstuhl für Philosophie mit Schwerpunkt Analytische Philosophie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
