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0199604681
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Modality and explanatory reasoning /
[Book]
Boris Kment
First edition
xii, 362 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index
Synopsis -- The 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
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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
Modality & explanatory reasoning
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Reasoning
Kment, Boris Christian,1975-
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