Permission and Possible Worlds

Dialectica 68 (3):317-336 (2014)
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I attempt to argue that if statements of permission are to serve as a guide to action then no possible worlds account of their truth-conditions can be correct

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10.1111/1746-8361.12068

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Truth and truthmakers.D. M. Armstrong - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Counterfactuals Without Possible Worlds.Kit Fine - 2012 - Journal of Philosophy 109 (3):221-246.
Interventionist counterfactuals.Rachael Briggs - 2012 - Philosophical Studies 160 (1):139-166.
Properties, propositions and sets.Kit Fine - 1977 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 6 (1):135 - 191.

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