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just good, June 2, 2013
Modal Logic As Metaphysics
Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with contingency and change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues, applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide structura..I just finished reading the first two chapter. As the author said in the preface, the topic will not interest all philosophers. Indeed, he used the world "dull". It is technical and metaphysical. Hope those who need reading the book enjoy.
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| Author: Min Xu | I just finished reading the first two chapter. As the author said in the preface, the topic will not interest all philosophers. Indeed, he used the world "dull". It is technical and metaphysical. Hope those who need reading the book enjoy. | 27 | |
