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Abstract. In this essay, I raise three topics with regards to Roderick Chisholm's account of the idea of an individual essence. First, I give an argument for the claim that objects have more than one essence. Second, I defend the view that someone can know a proposition entailing someone else's essence. Third, I argue that existentialism (a ...
15 de may. de 2003 · This book is a collection of my essays, dating from 1969, concerning the metaphysics of modality. The first two chapters are a defense of the idea of modality de re against criticisms from William ...
Allan Bäck: Review of Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality properties etc. [9] Accordingly Plantinga holds that the domain of objects is ˝xed by the domain of the actual world: the domains of other possible worlds are subsets of the domain of the actual world. For individual essences, universal properties etc.
Abstract. Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most ...
Metaphysics. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. According to Jean Paul Sartre, existentialism is the view that existence precedes essence. As I shall use the term, existentialism is the thesis that existence, even if it does not precede essence, is at any rate not preceded by it.
3 de jun. de 2003 · It is in the second of these essays that Plantinga introduces what are to become the basic entities of his metaphysics of modality: states of affairs. States of affairs are held to be abstract entities that such phrases as ’George Bush being a Yale graduate’ and ’Laura Bush having run for the presidency’ refer to.
1 de mar. de 2003 · Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject.
