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0199604681
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9780199604685
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Modality and explanatory reasoning /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Boris Kment
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 362 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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
SPINE TITLE
Spine Title
Modality & explanatory reasoning
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Reasoning
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Kment, Boris Christian,1975-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
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20150522013943.0
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