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Essays on Modality and Instantiation

Brown, Scott Andrew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483479401220297

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Philosophy.
The four essays in this dissertation form two natural pairs. The first pair, Chapters 2 and 3, defend standard modal realism by showing that it is not extensionally inadequate, contrary to what some recent critics have argued. The second pair, Chapters 4 and 5, defend a version of realism about universals by showing that some alternatives to it are either extensionally inadequate or suffer from an explanatory disadvantage.
Ben Caplan (Advisor)
David Sanson (Committee Member)
Declan Smithies (Committee Member)
William Taschek (Committee Member)
137 p.
Metaphysics; Philosophy
modal realism; possible worlds; recombination; properties; universals; resemblance nominalism; realism; instantiation

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  • Brown, S. A. (2017). Essays on Modality and Instantiation [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483479401220297

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, Scott. Essays on Modality and Instantiation. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483479401220297.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, Scott. "Essays on Modality and Instantiation." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1483479401220297

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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