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BL
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624460
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Kment, Boris Christian,1975-
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| Title & Author
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Modality and explanatory reasoning /\ Boris Kment
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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xii, 362 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780199604685
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: 0199604681
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index
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| Contents
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Synopsis -- The nature of modality -- Absolute necessity and iterated modality -- On the contingency of worlds -- A theory of worlds -- Essence, laws, and explanation -- Metaphysical and nomic necessity -- The standards of colseness -- Clarifications, additions, and objections -- Causation, nomic determination, and the counterfactual test -- On the genealogy of modality -- Extensions and limitations of the counterfactual test
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Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science
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Modality (Theory of knowledge)
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Reasoning
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Modality & explanatory reasoning
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