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Single Idea 14372

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

Full Idea

Possible worlds are just not the sorts of things that could ground modality; they are not suitable truthmakers.

Gist of Idea

Possible worlds are just not suitable truthmakers for modality

Source

Jonathan D. Jacobs (A Powers Theory of Modality [2010], §3)

Book Reference

-: 'Philosophical Studies' [-], p.6


A Reaction

Are possible world theorists actually claiming that the worlds 'ground' modality? Maybe Lewis is, since all those concrete worlds had better do some hard work, but for the ersatzist they just provide a kind of formal semantics, leaving ontology to others.