Nomic Necessity for Platonists

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 2 (4):324-331 (2013)
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Abstract

After identifying some existing explanations offered by nomic necessitarians for the alleged necessary connections between natural properties and their dispositional or nomic features, I discuss a less explored necessitarian strategy. This strategy is available to Platonists who hold that properties exist necessarily, as most do

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Matthew Tugby
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