Williamson on necessitism

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 46 (4-5):613-639 (2016)
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I critically discuss some of the main arguments of Modal Logic as Metaphysics, present a different way of thinking about the issues raised by those arguments, and briefly discuss some broader issues about the role of higher-order logic in metaphysics.

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10.1080/00455091.2016.1203243

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