Chance and Actuality
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Beitragende
Abstract
The relation between chance and actuality gives rise to a puzzle. On the one hand, it may be a chancy matter what will actually happen. On the other hand, the standard semantics for ‘actually’ implies that sentences beginning with ‘actually’ are never contingent. To elucidate the puzzle, I defend a kind of objective semantic indeterminacy: in a chancy world, it may be a chancy matter which proposition is expressed by sentences containing ‘actually’. I bring this thesis to bear on certain counter-examples, proposed by Hawthorne and Lasonen-Aarnio, to Lewis' ‘principal principle’.
Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 105-129 |
Seitenumfang | 24 |
Fachzeitschrift | The Philosophical Quarterly |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2011 |
Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Externe IDs
Scopus | 78650647036 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/142234602 |