A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D M Armstrong (0009-0009-3813-6900, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Combinatorial Theory of Possibility (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139172226 |
| OpenAlex | W4300703460 |
| Open Library | OL34478259M |
| ISBN | 9781139172226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 106 |
David Armstrong's book is a contribution to the 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 work will be read with interest by a wide range of philosophers.
Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Point (geometry) · Possible world · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Perspectival Realism
From Metaphysics to Ethics
Modality and Tense
Four-Dimensionalism
The Puzzle of Existence
Naturalistic ontology and epistemology of moral facts
Monismo prioritario, relaciones internas y libertad modal
Hyperrealism, part II
David Armstrong’s nomological realism
Evaluation of Kripke’s Account of the Illusion of Contingency
Clases de tropos como universales Ersatz
El argumento de sustracción para universales trascendentes
On how to Speak about Universals and Particulars in the Jaina Philosophical Literature of the Classical Period (5th–10th c. CE)
Constructing formal semantics from an ontological perspective. The case of second-order logics
(Un)Easily Possible Synthetic Biology
In Defense of Global Supervenience
The Ontological Ground of the Alethic Modality
David Armstrong on the Metaphysics of Mathematics
Iki and Contingency
Impossible Worlds
The Powers Metaphysic
Perspectival Realism
From Metaphysics to Ethics
The Nature of Ordinary Objects
Can Modal Skepticism Defeat Humean Skepticism?
Naturalised Modal Epistemology
Personal Identity Without Too Much Science Fiction
Objects, Ordinary and Otherwise
A Theory of Truthmaking
The Indispensability of Mathematics
Four-dimensionalism
Impossible Worlds
The Problem of De Re Modality
Matter Matters
Modality and tense
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
Quid Quidditism Est
Plato on Parts and Wholes
The Importance of Defining the Feasible Set
Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay
Measuring Ontological Simplicity
The value of laws in chemistry
A Causal Exclusion Problem for Knowledge-First Epistemology
On Unexplained (Modal) Patterns
From Dispositions to Possible Worlds
The Empty World as the Null Conjunction of States of Affairs
Musical Works as Structural Universals
Potentialism and S5
Why illusionism about consciousness is unbelievable
A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties
Is Colour incompatibility analytic
Second-order relations and nomic regularities
A Humean Non-Humeanism
Metaphysical Nihilism and Modal Logic
The laws of modality
Kant on the Dual Grounding of Possibility
A modified Meditation
The Uniqueness of Necessary Truth and the Status of S4 and S5
Arbitrary Reference and Weak Discernibility
The Jerrybuilt House of Humeanism
Fundamentality And Modal Freedom
Bare Particulars”
Plenitude, Coincidence, and Humility
Absolute Actuality and the Plurality of Worlds
Non‐Reductive Physicalism Cannot Appeal to Token Identity 1
The Way Things Were
Can Hardcore Actualism Validate S5
What is Hume’s Dictum, and Why Believe It
Intrinsic Properties and Combinatorial Principles
Monism
Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events
Merely partial definition and the analysis of knowledge
Statues and Lumps
Model Theory and Validity
The strong arm of the law
Interdiscourse or supervenience relations
Recombining non-qualitative reality
Aboutness and negative truths
What could be caused must actually be caused
Truth in the Tractatus
General information in relevant logic
Distance and Discrete Space
The epistemological objection to modal primitivism
Why I am not an Anti-Haecceitist
(A new paradigm for) the problem of the many
Essence and the inference problem
Potency and Modality
Fundamental truthmakers and non-fundamental truths
Challenging the identity theory of properties
Resurrecting the Hume’s Dictum argument against metaethical non-naturalism
Accessibility, Kinds, and Laws
Is It Possible to Nominalize Quantum Mechanics
Perspectival Modeling
Leibniz and the Ground of Possibility
Logical Combinatorialism
Two Axes of Actualism
Intrinsic Properties of Properties
Numbers as Quantitative Relations and the Traditional Theory of Measurement
Symmetries and Paraparticles as a Motivation for Structuralism
Plurals and Complexes
| Unique citing works | 106 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,12 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |