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Williamson on necessitism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jeremy Goodman
Jeremy Goodman*
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Department of Philosophy, NYU, New York, NY, USA.
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Email: goodman.jeremy@gmail.com
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Abstract

I critically discuss some of the main arguments of Modal Logic as Metaphysics, present a different way of thinking about the issues raised by those arguments, and briefly discuss some broader issues about the role of higher-order logic in metaphysics.

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Metaphysicsmodalityhigher-order logicnecessitismWilliamson
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 46 , Issue 4-5: Special Issue: Williamson on Modality , August 2016 , pp. 613 - 639
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2016

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