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Prospositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions The second is to defend an account of their nature. While pursuing these golas, Trenton Merricks draws a variety of controversial conclusion about related issues, including, among others, supervaluationism, the nature...
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Clarendon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=2767aa11d7954f9da01567dde35b3b53 |
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Prospositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions The second is to defend an account of their nature. While pursuing these golas, Trenton Merricks draws a variety of controversial conclusion about related issues, including, among others, supervaluationism, the nature of possible worlds, truths about non-existent entities, and whether and how logical consequence depends on modal facts. An argument is modally valid just in case, necessarily, if its premises are true, the its conclusion is true. Propositions begins with the assumption that some arguments are modally valid. Merricks then argues that the premises and conclusions of modally valid arguments, there are propositions. Merricks defends the claim that propositions are not structured and are not sets of possible worlds. He thereby presents arguments against the two leading accounts of the nature of propositions, Those arguments are intended not only to oppose those accounts, but also to deliver conclusions about what a satisfactory account of the nature of proposition should say Of particular importance in this regard are arguments concerning the alleged explanations of how a set of possible worlds or a structured proposition would manage to represent things as being a certain way. Merrick then defends his own account of the nature of propositions, which says only that each proposition is a necessary existent that essentially represents things beings a certain way Book jacket. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page [217]-227 )and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191046513 9780198732563 |
| Index Number: | BC181 |
| CLC: | B81 |