The Contingency of Possibility

In this paper we criticize the way possibility is characterized in contemporary modal logic through the diamond operator. We explain that it does not match with the usual notion of possibility and that this notion is better described by the vertex Y of the hexagon of opposition usually called contin...

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Main Author: Jean-Yves Béziau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2016-09-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/46833