Modal Combinatorialism is Consistent with S5

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 8 (1):23-32 (2019)
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The combinatorial theory of modality has long been dogged by the supposed problem that it entails that S5 is not the correct logic for metaphysical modality. In this paper, I suggest a modification to combinatorialism, to eliminate this tension with S5. I argue that the resulting view is more in the spirit of combinatorialism than the original position.

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