Necessity, Essence, and Individuation : : A Defense of Conventionalism /

Necessity, Essence, and Individuation : : A Defense of Conventionalism / / Alan Sidelle.

Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Sidelle, Alan,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1989
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Realism and Conventionalism
  • 2. How to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist
  • 3. Is It Possible to Be a Modern-Day Conventionalist? or, Responding to Some Technical Worries
  • 4. The Case for Conventionalism and the Problem with Real Necessity
  • 5. The Commitment to Analyticity
  • 6. Analyticity and Reference
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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