The Epistemology of Modality.¶
Vaidya, A. The Epistemology of Modality. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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- A Posteriori Necessity
- “Hesperus is Phosphorus”—the evening star is the morning star—has this structure: astronomy supplies the actual identity with Venus; rigidity and the necessity of identity supply the modal result.
This sourceAuthoritative account of Kripke's deduction model, the empirical identity premise, the modal conditional, and rationalist versus empiricist treatments of modal knowledge.
- “Hesperus is Phosphorus”—the evening star is the morning star—has this structure: astronomy supplies the actual identity with Venus; rigidity and the necessity of identity supply the modal result.
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