Thoughts
Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
Yablo, Stephen MIT
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926646-3
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199266463.003.0002
 

Stephen Yablo
This chapter addresses the question of what conceivability is. It proposes an account that locates conceivability proper with respect to various subscripted impostors; makes for a revealing contrast with inconceivability and undecidability; and predicts that a conceived proposition will appear as possible.
Keywords: believability, objections, Hume, Descartes, modal error
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199266463.003.0002
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