The Way Things are: Basic Readings in MetaphysicsThis anthology of classic and contemporary readings addresses the major areas of metaphysical inquiry: personal identity and responsibility; free will and determinism; change and time; existence and non-existence; the mind-body problem; and causal determinism and free will. |
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... logic . Logical or metaphysical necessity is agglomerative and closed under entailment , and the principle ' ( □ p · □ ( pƆ q ) ) Ɔ □ q ' is valid for logical necessity under any reasonable interpretation of such ne- cessity . On the ...
... logic . Logical or metaphysical necessity is agglomerative and closed under entailment , and the principle ' ( □ p · □ ( pƆ q ) ) Ɔ □ q ' is valid for logical necessity under any reasonable interpretation of such ne- cessity . On the ...
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... logical implication ( or both ) , since the latter principles together entail or validate the former . And this we ... logical implication , it is closed under logical equivalence , and ' N ( p · pɔ q ) ' will be true only if ' N ( p q ) ...
... logical implication ( or both ) , since the latter principles together entail or validate the former . And this we ... logical implication , it is closed under logical equivalence , and ' N ( p · pɔ q ) ' will be true only if ' N ( p q ) ...
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... logical implication , and obedient to our main principle comes from the powerful exam- ple of “ standard ” alethic modal logic , the logic of logical necessity and possibility . ( I think GLVW's modal principles would seem much less ...
... logical implication , and obedient to our main principle comes from the powerful exam- ple of “ standard ” alethic modal logic , the logic of logical necessity and possibility . ( I think GLVW's modal principles would seem much less ...
Contents
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Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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