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Single Idea 18826

[catalogued under 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 7. Making Modal Truths]

Full Idea

A statement is 'true at a possibility' if, necessarily, things would have been as the statement (actually) says they are, had the possibility obtained.

Gist of Idea

'True at a possibility' means necessarily true if what is said had obtained

Source

Ian Rumfitt (The Boundary Stones of Thought [2015], 6.6)

Book Reference

Rumfitt,Ian: 'The Boundary Stones of Thought' [OUP 2015], p.181


A Reaction

This is deliberately vague about what a 'possibility' is, but it is intended to be more than a property instantiation, and less than a possible world.

Related Idea

Idea 18828 If two possibilities can't share a determiner, they are incompatible [Rumfitt]