@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Field,Hartry}, subject = {Modal Operators}, note = {I 205 Modal operator/problem of actuality/Field: E.g. it is possible that a distance is twice or half as big as it actually is. - That cannot be done by the possibility operator alone. >Modal operator, >Contingency, >Facts. Incorrect solution: "actuality operator": which is to refer back to the actual world. >Actual world. Modality: is used by the relationism to express that double distance is possible, even if there is no matter point. - The Substantivalism does not need that. >Relationism, >Substantivalism. I 253 Modality/possibility/physics/Field: a prefixed modal operator would change the content of a physical law. - ((s) Which goes beyond the purely logical case p > Mp.) >Natural laws.}, note = { Field I H. Field Realism, Mathematics and Modality Oxford New York 1989 Field II H. Field Truth and the Absence of Fact Oxford New York 2001 Field III H. Field Science without numbers Princeton New Jersey 1980 Field IV Hartry Field "Realism and Relativism", The Journal of Philosophy, 76 (1982), pp. 553-67 In Theories of Truth, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=248665} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=248665} }