Gregory, D. (2011) Iterated Modalities, Meaning and A Priori Knowledge. Philosophers’ Imprint, 11 (3). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1533-628X
Abstract
Recent work on the philosophy of modality has tended to pass over questions about iterated modalities in favour of constructing ambitious metaphysical theories of possibility and necessity, despite the central importance of iterated modalities to modal logic. Yet there are numerous unresolved but fundamental issues involving iterated modalities: Chandler and Salmon have provided forceful arguments against the widespread assumption that all necessary truths are necessarily necessary, for example. The current paper examines a range of ways in which one might seek to identify limited regions within which some of the most well-known principles featuring iterated modalities may safely be assumed
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011 Dominic Gregory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Please contact mpub-help@umich.edu to use this work in a way not covered by the license. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2016 09:22 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2016 09:23 |
Published Version: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0011.003 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Michigan Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:107159 |
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