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Knowledge of objective modality
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The epistemology of modality has focused on metaphysical modality and, more recently, counterfactual conditionals. Knowledge of kinds of modality that are not metaphysical has so far gone largely unexplored. Yet other theoretically interesting kinds of modality, such as nomic, practical, and ‘easy’ possibility, are no less puzzling epistemologically. Could Clinton easily have won the 2016 presidential election—was it an easy possibility? Given that she didn’t in fact win the election, how, if...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s11098-018-1052-4
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- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 176
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 1155-1175
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-24
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1573-0883
- ISSN:
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0031-8116
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- English
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- 2019-08-15
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- 2018
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- © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1052-4
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