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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
Modality and explanatory reasoning
Enthält:
SynopsisThe nature of modality -- Absolute necessity and iterated modality -- On the contingency of worlds -- A theory of worlds -- Essence, laws, and explanation -- Metaphysical and nomic necessity -- The standards of colseness -- Clarifications, additions, and objections -- Causation, nomic determination, and the counterfactual test -- On the genealogy of modality -- Extensions and limitations of the counterfactual test.
Beschreibung:
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science