Book 2013

Necessary Beings

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Language: English
Published: 2013

Modality (logic)
Ontology
Necessity (philosophy)
Knowledge, theory of
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Metaphysics
Modalität
Ontologie

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things - not in meanings or concepts.