Publication details
Are Wooden Tables Necessarily Wooden? Intensional Essentialism Versus Metaphysical Modality
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Year of publication | 2002 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Acta Analytica |
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Field | Philosophy and religion |
Keywords | essentialism * metaphysical modality |
Description | Supposing - as we do in transparent intensional logic - that individuals are 'nude' possessing no non-trivial property necessarily we argue that no wooden table is necessarily wooden (and not necessarily a table either). The argumentation is connected with a criticism of Kripke's theory. |
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