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Possible worlds
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | De, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Modality concerns what might or must be the case. We use modal expressions such as 'might', 'must', and cognates in a variety of ways, however. One can truthfully say, for example, that the neither yet proved nor disproved Goldbach's conjecture (that every natural number greater than two is the sum of two primes) might be true, even if the conjecture is false and hence, in a metaphysical sense, necessarily so. What one means here is that the conjecture is compatible with our evidence, since we have neither proven nor disproven it. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Modality |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2014-0-32678-9&isbn=9781315742144&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 20 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Starting Page | 11 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315742144-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-29 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of Modality History and Philosophy of Science Metaphysical Worlds Modality Modality Concerns |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
