Single Idea 20475

[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity]

Full Idea

Some people claim that modal sentences do not express truths or falsehoods.

Gist of Idea

Maybe modal sentences cannot be true or false

Source

Albert Casullo (A Priori Knowledge [2002], 3.2)

Book Reference

'Oxford Handbook of Epistemology', ed/tr. Moser, Paul K. [OUP 2002], p.112


A Reaction

I can only imagine this coming from a narrow hardline empiricist. It seems to me obvious that we make true or false statements about what is possible or impossible.