Williamson on Fine on Prior on the reduction of possibilist discourse

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (4-5):548-570 (2016)
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I attempt to meet some criticisms that Williamson makes of my attempt to carry out Prior's project of reducing possibility discourse to actualist discourse.

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10.1080/00455091.2016.1153407

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