Professor Matthew Tugby matthew.tugby@durham.ac.uk
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Modal Platonism and the Problem of Negativity
Tugby, Matthew
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Abstract
The Platonic account of modality says, roughly, that truths about alien possibilities are grounded in uninstantiated universals. Recently, Ingram has raised a problem for this kind of view, which is that it apparently requires negative facts to play a truthmaking role. Ingram offers an alternative Platonic account which makes use of modal instantiation relations. In this paper, I highlight some of the costs of Ingram’s new account and argue that a more appealing version of Platonism—and modal theory in general—is one that is supplemented with an ontology of totality facts.
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Tugby, M. (2018). Modal Platonism and the Problem of Negativity. Erkenntnis, 83(3), 465-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9898-y
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Apr 3, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 22, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | May 11, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Erkenntnis |
Print ISSN | 0165-0106 |
Electronic ISSN | 1572-8420 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 83 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 465-476 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-017-9898-y |
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