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- W2337644430 abstract "Many have felt the attractions of a reduction of the modal to the non-modal. There’s something unattractive about the claim that the world just could have been otherwise and that that’s the end of the matter — nothing more illuminating to say! Such a primitivism about modality threatens to leave the notion mysterious, and the primitivist leaves themselves open to the challenge from the sceptic that their notion is not in good standing. Of course, there are intermediate options between ending the story where the simple primitivist ends it and offering a fully reductive account of the modal — and I will have more to say later about just why a thorough reduction of the modal is desirable — but it is at least evident that the prospects for reduction are of interest. The most well worked out attempt at a reduction of the modal to the non-modal remains David Lewis’s Modal Realism.1 I say “attempt” at a reduction, not because I think it fails as a reduction, but because others have made the claim that it does. It will be the aim of this paper to argue that it does not fail: that Lewisian Realism is a genuine and successful, completely reductive account of modality. Along the way I hope to shed some light on what a reductive analysis of modality — and, indeed, analyses in general — need to accomplish to be successful, and why reduction is desirable. Lewis’s starting point are the Leibnizian biconditionals: p is necessary iff it is true at every possible world, possible iff it is true at some possible world, and actually true iff it is true at the actual world. If these biconditionals are true, then to provide a reduction of the modal to the non-modal, one need only provide non-modal analyses of the notion of a possible world, actuality, and what it is to be true at a world. Lewis makes two assumptions in his definition of a possible world. The first is unrestricted mereological composition: for any collection of objects, the Xs, there is an object which is the sum of the Xs. The second is that there is a dyadic equivalence relation x is spatiotemporally, or analogously, related to y. That is, we can take all the things that" @default.
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- W2337644430 title "Why Lewis's analysis of modality succeeds in its reductive ambitions." @default.
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