Against Modalities: On the Presumed Coherence and Alleged Indispensability of Some Modal Notions
Part I investigates the idea that kinds (as opposed to individuals) have some modal properties. I argue that concerning typical kind-essentialist claims there is a non-trivial question—the transworld identity problem—about what the relevant kind terms are supposed to refer to in non-actual possible...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/16814 |