Knowing how things might have been

DOI10.1007/S11229-018-1869-6MaRDI QIDQ2695047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Jago

Publication date 30 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1869-6

zbMATH Keywords

essenceessential bundle theoryKit Fineknowledgemodal epistemologymodalitynature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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Cites work

• Against the reduction of modality to essence
• An introduction to non-classical logic. From if to is
• Impossible worlds
• Impossible worlds: A modest approach
• Semantics for the logic of essence
• The Epistemology of Modality
• The logic of essence
• The problem of rational knowledge
• What truth is

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• What should I believe about what would have been the case?
• Topic theoretic invariantism

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