Modal Fictionalism and Compositionality |
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Authors: | Dever Josh |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, 316 Waggener Hall, Austin, TX, 78712-1180, USA, E-mail |
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Abstract: | Modal fictionalists propose to defuse the unwanted ontological commitments of modal realism by treating modal realism as a fictional story, and modal assertions as assertions, prefixed by a fictionalist operator, that something is true in that story. However, consideration of conditionals with modal antecedents raises the problem ofembedding, which shows that the simple prefixing strategy cannotsucceed. A compositional version of the fictionalist strategy isdeveloped and critiqued, and some general semantic morals aredrawn from the failures of both strategies. |
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