Can Essence Provide Knowledge of Metaphysical Necessity? A Reply to Jago

Philosophia 48 (3):931-933 (2020)
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In this paper I argue against Mark Jago’s recent suggestion that ordinary knowers can move from knowledge of essence to knowledge of metaphysical necessity.

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10.1007/s11406-019-00116-1

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Benjamin L. Curtis
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From Essence to Metaphysical Modality?Harold W. Noonan - 2020 - Axiomathes 32 (2):345-354.

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Knowing how things might have been.Mark Jago - 2018 - Synthese (Suppl 8):1-19.
Knowing how things might have been.Mark Jago - 2018 - Synthese 198 (S8):1981-1999.

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