The logic of contingent existence
Among modal claims, claims that involve the notions of broadly logical possibility and necessity, one that seems almost trivial is this: that if some proposition is possible, then it is possibly true. However, there is an argument, due in its essentials to the medieval philosopher and logician Jean...
Main Author: | Kervick, Daniel Michael |
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Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809355 |
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