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Essence and Counterfactuals : = Coordination and Extension.

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Title/Author:	Essence and Counterfactuals :/
Reminder of title:	Coordination and Extension.
Author:	Watkins, Alfredo.
Description:	1 online resource (49 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369875041

Essence and Counterfactuals : = Coordination and Extension.
Watkins, Alfredo.

Essence and Counterfactuals :Coordination and Extension. - 1 online resource (49 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Essence statements are sentences stating what it is to be a certain thing or type of thing; these sorts of statements are in fact quite common. They also interact with counterfactual conditionals in interesting ways. This paper will argue that essence statements sometimes license inferences to counterpossibles, and vice versa. Counterpossibles are counterfactual conditionals where the antecedent posits some metaphysical impossibility. These sorts of counterfactuals are all vacuously true according to the standard Lewis-Stalnaker semantics, even though it seems that some are false (and that some are true, but non-trivially so). If the standard semantics is to account for this, it will have to be modified. As a result, I will propose an alternative understanding of essence and an account of counterfactuals that extends the Lewis-Stalnaker account, and suggest that this combined account might make better sense of some of the phenomena.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369875041Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Philosophy.
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