Modality and explanatory reasoning

• Tác giả: Boris Christian Kment
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0199604681 (hbk.)
• ISBN: 9780198803171 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9780199604685 (hbk.)
• Mô tả vật lý: xii, 362 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Tham khảo
• ID: 275517
• Chủ đề: 1. Modality (Theory of knowledge); 2. Reasoning

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-347) and index.

Tóm tắt

Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.