Contingent Existence and Iterated Modality

Analysis 77 (1):155-165 (2017)
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A discussion of a view, defended by Robert Adams and Boris Kment, according to which contingent existence requires rejecting many standard principles of propositional modal logic involving iterated modal operators.

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