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K současné analýze modalit
On Contemporary Analysis of Modalities

Author(s): Vojtěch Kolman
Subject(s): Logic, Analytic Philosophy
Published by: Filozofický ústav SAV

Summary/Abstract: In the paper I firstly review attitudes that the founders of modern logic and analytical philosophy maintained towards modalitites, preferring logical or epistemical reduction, then I proceed to their contemporary metaphysical opponents who aspire to refine the newleibnizian ontology of possible worlds. I point out some unclarified assumptions in their „arguments\'\' to which – and to the philosophical analysis of possibility in general – I add a few final general critical remarks based on Wittgenstein-Carnapś conception of possibility as meaningfulness.

  • Issue Year: 11/2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 15-31
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech