An inconvenient modal truth

Analysis 74 (4):575-577 (2014)
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There is a de re modal truth that proves inconvenient for the canonical Lewisian theory of modality. For this truth requires on that theory, the existence of things (counterparts) that exist in distinct worlds but are also spatiotemporally related

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Fragmentalism and Tensed Truths.Xiaochen Qi - forthcoming - Acta Analytica:1-18.
Cross-World Comparatives for Modal Realists.Robert Michels - 2018 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 25 (3):368-391.

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