Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Preface; ; 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;