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• Title:
  Chisholm's Modal Paradox(es) and Counterpart Theory 50 Years On
• Creator:
  Ramachandran, Murali
• Description:
  Lewis’s [1968] counterpart theory (LCT for short), motivated by his modal realism, made its appearance within a year of Chisholm’s modal paradox [1967]. We are not modal realists, but we argue that a satisfactory resolution to the paradox calls for a counterpart-theoretic (CT-)semantics. We make our case by showing that the Chandler–Salmon strategy of denying the S4 axiom [◊◊ψ →◊ψ] is inadequate to resolve the paradox – we take on Salmon’s attempts to defend that strategy against objects from Lewis and Williamson. We then consider three substantially different CT-approaches: Lewis’s LCT, Forbes’s (FCT), including his fuzzy version, and Ramachandran’s (RCT). We argue that the best approach is a mish-mash of FCT and RCT.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Date:
  2020.04.22
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Vol. 29 No. 4 (2020): December; 571-592;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Tom 29 Nr 4 (2020): grudzień; 571-592;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2020.008/25428
• Subject:
  Chisholm’s paradox;
  counterpart theory;
  Lewis;
  Salmon;
  Forbes;
  Williamson;
  Philosophical logic
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2020.008
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text