A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility

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Paperback | 30 April 1990

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David Armstrong's new book is a contribution to recent philosophical discussion about possible worlds. Taking Wittgenstein's Tractatus as his point of departure, Professor Armstrong argues that nonactual possibilities and possible worlds are recombinations of actually existing elements, and as such are useful fictions. There is an extended criticism of the alternative-possible-worlds approach championed by the American philosopher David Lewis. This major new work will be read with interest by a wide range of philosophers.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy & Logic Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge History of Western Philosophy

Preface
Non-Naturalist Theories of Possibility
The causal argument
Non-Naturalist theories of possibility
A Combinatorial and Naturalist Account of Possibility
Possibility in a simple world
Expanding and contracting the world
Relative atoms
Are there de re incompatibilities and necessities?
Higher-order entities, negation and causation
Supervenience
Mathematics
Final questions: logic
Works cited
Appendix: Tractarian Nominalism Brian Skyrms
Index
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