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Title: | Fictional Possibilities Grounded in Foundational Nominalism | Contributor(s): | Forrest, Peter (author) | Publication Date: | 2021-03 | Early Online Version: | 2020-02-06 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11406-020-00182-w | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28038 | Abstract: | David Armstrong in his A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility proposes that non-actual possibilities may be treated as fictions grounded in instantiated universals. In this paper, I first provide some objections to his theory. Then I make the case for Foundational Nominalism, the Armstrong inspired thesis that the whole of ontology supervenes on particulars described much as in the Quinean Nominalism that Armstrong rejected as an ontological ostrich. Finally, I argue that Foundational Nominalism permits a fictional theory of possibilities similar to Brian Skyrms’ Tractarian Nominalism. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Philosophia, 49(1), p. 1-16 | Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1574-9274 0048-3893 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220399 Philosophy not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 500399 Philosophy not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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