Modern modalities : studies of the history of modal theories from medieval nominalism to logical positivism
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Modern modalities : studies of the history of modal theories from medieval nominalism to logical positivism
（Synthese historical library, v. 33）
Kluwer Academic Publishers , Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1988
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
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内容説明
The word "modem" in the title of this book refers primarily to post-medieval discussions, but it also hints at those medieval mo dal theories which were considered modem in contradistinction to ancient conceptions and which in different ways influenced philosophical discussions during the early modem period. The me dieval developments are investigated in the opening paper, 'The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and His Predecessors', by Lilli Alanen and Simo Knuuttila. Boethius's works from the early sixth century belonged to the sources from which early medieval thinkers obtained their knowledge of ancient thought. They offered extensive discus sions of traditional modal conceptions the basic forms of which were: (1) the paradigm of possibility as a potency striving to realize itself; (2) the "statistical" interpretation of modal no tions where necessity means actuality in all relevant cases or omnitemporal actuality, possibility means actuality in some rel evant cases or sometimes, and impossibility means omnitemporal non-actuality; and (3) the "logical" definition of possibility as something which, being assumed, results in nothing contradic tory. Boethius accepted the Aristotelian view according to which total possibilities in the first sense must prove their met tle through actualization and possibilities in the third sense are assumed to be realized in our actual history. On these presump tions, all of the above-mentioned ancient paradigms imply the Principle of Plenitude according to which no genuine possibility remains unrealized.
目次
The Foundations of Modality and Conceivability in Descartes and his Predecessors.- Hobbes's System of Modalities.- Was Leibniz's Deity an Akrates?.- Hegel on Modalities and Monadology.- Plenitude and Contingency: Modal Concepts in Nineteenth Century French Philosophy.- Frege and his German Contemporaries on Alethic Modalities.- From Possibility to Probability: British Discussions on Modality in the Nineteenth Century.- The Failure of Logical Positivism to Cope with Problems of Modal Theory.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.
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