On some worldly worries

Synthese - Tập 95 - Trang 9-12 - 1993
Nelson Goodman1
1Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Tóm tắt

Israel Scheffler and others have had trouble accepting such drastic theses in my work as that worlds, even old ones, are made by right versions, even new ones, and that two conflicting versions may both be right. But further explication shows how such theses have advantages over the more usual common-sense alternatives.