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/9780199266463.003.0005
 

Stephen Yablo
This chapter explores the role of actuality in modal judgments. It argues that Kripke's first great contribution to conceivability studies was to have seen the need for a technology of modal error detection in the first place. His second great contribution was to have made a start at developing this technology. There is no need to foist on him a third ‘contribution’ of identifying the one and only way modal illusions can arise.
Keywords: actuality, modal judgement, Kripke, conceivability studies
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199266463.003.0005
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