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Abduction versus conceiving in modal epistemology
Synthese 198 (Suppl 8):2045-2076 (2019)
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How should modal reasoning proceed? Here we compare abduction-based and conceiving-based modal epistemologies, and argue that an abduction-based approach is preferable, and by a wide margin.Author Profiles
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