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| Modalities: modalities are in modal logic possibility, necessity and contingency._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Bas van Fraassen on Modalities - Dictionary of Arguments
I 158 NominalismVsmodality - EmpiricismVsModality. Solution today: instead of probability. - Hermann Weyl. >Probability. I 198 Modality/science/Fraassen: in science modality appears only insofar as its language is modal. - We must also consider the structure of language here together with the models and actual phenomena. >Phenomena, >Observation language. Possible Worlds/Fraassen: but we must not regard them as real. >Possible worlds. I 200 Modal/actual/Wittgenstein/Fraassen: a) actual: nothing that is green is red b) modal: there is no possible object that is both green and red - this goes beyond the first by saying something about what could not be. a) says that there is no point in the color spectrum that is green and red b) that absolutely no point of the spectrum is so. >Obervation, >Method, >Experiment._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 |
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