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Engagement and metaphysical dissatisfaction [electronic resource] : modality and value /

by Stroud, Barry.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199894970 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Metaphysics | Causation | Necessity (Philosophy) | ValueOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all.
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We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all.

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