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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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59300/ |