The Nature of Necessity
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy
ISBN-10
0198244142
ISBN-13
9780198244141
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 1978
Print length
266 Pages
Weight
352 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 16.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
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The aim of this study is to explore and defend the notion of modality "de re", the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over such problems as the nature of essence and the problem of evil.
This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality ''de re'', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed.The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.
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