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Modality: A History

By Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Editor), Samuel Newlands (Editor)
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By Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Editor), Samuel Newlands (Editor)
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Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity o...

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