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Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise$
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Takashi Yagisawa

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780199576890

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576890.001.0001

Modal Realism and Modal Tense

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(p. 73 ) 5 Modal Realism and Modal Tense
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Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise
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Takashi Yagisawa

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576890.003.0006

Modal realists should use the modal analogs of tenses in their official language of theorizing on modal metaphysics and epistemology. Doing do will enable them to respond to a variety of objections in a simple unified fashion. Objections to modal realism by Skyrms, Quine, Peacocke, and van Inwagen are neutralized by means of modal tenses.

Keywords:   Peacocke, possible world, presentism, Quine, Skyrms, tense, van Inwagen

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