Modal translation: the relevance of worlds

Advanced or extraordinary modal sentences represent a challenge to the expressive adequacy of David Lewis’ (1968) modal translation scheme. Specifically, modal sentences that ought to be true (by the lights of genuine realism) are translated as false by the scheme, and vice versa. For example, the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanmer, Paul
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59300/