Journal article
From physical to metaphysical necessity
- Abstract:
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Let Nomological Bound be the thesis that there is nothing objectively possible beyond what is physically possible. Nomological Bound has struck many as a live hypothesis. Nevertheless, in this article I provide a novel argument against it. Yet even though I claim that Nomological Bound is false, I argue that the boundaries of objective possibility can still be characterised intimately in terms of physical necessity. This is philosophically significant, for on a natural understanding it consti...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Mind Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2021-12-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1460-2113
- ISSN:
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0026-4423
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1199952
- Local pid:
- pubs:1199952
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Alexander Roberts.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © Pearce 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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