Against the reduction of modality to essence

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1667-6MaRDI QIDQ2695191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan Wildman

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/s11229-017-1667-6

zbMATH Keywords

groundingmodalitynecessitypossibilityontological dependenceessence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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