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Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity book cover

1st Edition

Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity

By Tristan Grøtvedt Haze Copyright 2022
204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of words. It has often been thought that modal issues—issues about possibility and necessity—are... Read more

Introduction: Necessity, Meaning, and Method

1. Groundwork on Necessity

2. An Encouraging Link

3. Factorizing Necessity

Appendix to Chapter 3

4. Two Aspects of Linguistic Meaning

5. The Doctrine of Flexible Granularity

6. On the Theory of Propositions

7. Strongly Metaphysical Modality?

8. Toward a Form of Skepticism

Biography

Tristan Grøtvedt Haze is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His published work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, Analytic Philosophy, and Thought.

“The overall view Haze defends is carefully developed and full of interesting arguments and insights . . . I would recommend the book for anyone interested in interdisciplinary issues in metaphysics and philosophy of language.”

The Review of Metaphysics

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