A Note on Lange on Contingent Necessity-Makers

Erkenntnis 86 (3):763-771 (2019)
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Lange has argued that contingencies lack the modal strength to be necessity-makers. Here, I argue that Lange’s case turns upon a faulty premise, and that there is no obvious fixes he might pursue. The general upshot is that his argument gives us no reason to think that contingencies could not be necessity-makers after all.

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Nathan Wildman
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More on Why Contingent Facts Cannot Necessities Make: A Reply to Wildman.Marc Lange - 2023 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 54 (2):325-329.

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