The view that ordinary objects are composites of form and matter (“hylomorphism”) can be
contrasted with the more common view that ordinary objects are composed of only material …

Onttisen kommunismin lähtökohtana on ajatus, että on olemassa partikulaarisia yksilöolioita.
Näistä selvimpiä esimerkkejä ovat tavalliset ajallis-avaruudelliset oliot kuten ihmiset, kivet …

Analysis of alethic modality and the related notion of possible world have played important if
not crucial role in the analytic philosophy of the 20th century. The mainstream in the theories …

The study focuses on the development of the philosophical analysis of alethic modalities
(possibility and necessity) in terms of possible worlds semantics in the analytical tradition …

The integration challenge for modality states that metaphysical theories of modality tend to
fail in one of two ways: either they render the meanings of modal sentences mysterious, or …

Armstrong's combinatorial theory of possibility faces the obvious difficulty that not all
universals are compatible. In this paper I develop three objections against Armstrong's …

Metaphysics, the science of “Being qua Being”, is, traditionally, one of the central, if not the
most central, sub-discipline of philosophical inquiry. Its origins can easily be traced back to …

In this paper, the authors argue that there is a version of actualist realism about possible
worlds and possible individuals that is immune to the difficulties raised for this view in Divers …

I argue that all factualist reductionist accounts of the ground of modality are either materially
inadequate, or circular. By modality I mean the mode of truth or falsity of a proposition (ie …

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