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[from 'Writing the Book of the World' by Theodore Sider, in 10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 3. Necessity by Convention ]

Full Idea

Conventionalism is apparently inapplicable to Kripke's and Putnam's examples of the necessary a posteriori (and, relatedly, to de re modality).

Gist of Idea

Conventionalism doesn't seem to apply to examples of the necessary a posteriori

Source

Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 12.1)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.268


A Reaction

[Sidelle 1989 discusses this]