Single Idea 13374

[catalogued under 10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity]

Full Idea

The ultimate analysis of possibility and necessity depends on two important ontological decisions: the choice of an analysis of the intuitive concept of a physical object, and the other is the positing of properties and relations.

Gist of Idea

To analyse modality, we must give accounts of objects, properties and relations

Source

Michael Jubien (Possibility [2009], Intro)

Book Reference

Jubien,Michael: 'Possibility' [OUP 2009], p.-5


A Reaction

In the same passage he adopts Quine's view of objects, leading to mereological essentialism, and a Platonic view of properties, based on Lewis's argument for taking some things at face value. One might start with processes and events instead.