Nature of Necessity

Name: Nature of Necessity
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ISBN: 9780198244141

ISBN-10: 0198244142

ISBN-13: 9780198244141

Edition: 1978

Authors: Alvin Plantinga

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This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/15/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preliminary distinctions and remarks


Modality de re: Objections


Modality de re: Explanations


Worlds, books, and essential properties


The necessity of natures


Transworld identity or worldbound individuals?


Possible but unactual objects: The classical argument


Possible but unactual objects: On what there isn't


God, Evil, and the metaphysics of freedom


God and necessity