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Modal Platonism and the Problem of Negativity

Tugby, Matthew

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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
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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