Impossibilia and Modally Tensed Predication

Acta Analytica 30 (4):317-323 (2015)
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Mark Jago’s four arguments against Takashi Yagisawa’s extended modal realism are examined and shown to be ineffective. Yagisawa’s device of modal tense renders three of Jago’s arguments harmless, and the correct understanding of predications of modal properties of world stages blocks the fourth one

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Worlds and individuals, possible and otherwise.Takashi Yagisawa - 2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Against Yagisawa's modal realism.Mark Jago - 2013 - Analysis 73 (1):10-17.

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