Should We Be Agnostics About Pw

Question 1

Does the agnostic think pw Lang is truly analytic

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Does the agnostic deny truth or refuse to assert it?

Answer 2

Refuse to assert it

Question 3

How many accounts does divers fail to show the modal claims are rationally dispensable?

Answer 3

2

Question 4

What warrant does the MA require

Answer 4

Conceptual, local, semantic

Question 5

Functional constraint: modal analysis must fulfil ______ and ______ needs

Answer 5

Intellectual and practical

Question 6

Modal function: no more ______ than necessary for a.

Answer 6

Substantial

Question 7

Which part of functional model can’t the MA answer?

Answer 7

Intellectual and practical needs

Question 8

What kind of agnostic must we be to deny the existence of things?

Answer 8

Moderate

Question 9

An example of something we have logical warrant for

Answer 9

A and not-a

Question 10

The worldly statement the agnostic can make for unrestricted negative existential claims

Answer 10

There is no world where something is blue and green all over

Question 11

The modal statement the agnostic can make

Answer 11

It is impossible for something to be blue and green all over

Question 12

Like the realist, the agnostic can ______ over the existence that they have warrant for

Answer 12

Quantify

Question 13

The modal agnostic can give a _________ Account to show her Statement are not _________

Answer 13

Reductionist, primitive

Question 14

Types of modal assertions the agnostic can make are:

Answer 14

Possibility connected to actuality, counterfactuals, restricted necessity and impossibility claims

Question 15

What are the featured of contested sentences

Answer 15

Entails the existence of a possible world that satisfies a non-modal condition
The actual world does not satisfy that condition

Question 16

Divers example of a contested sentence

Answer 16

I can possibly overtake successfully

Question 17

Rendering the assertabilty deficit void involves….

Answer 17

Showing the contested sentences are rationally dispensable

Question 18

Why is divers example not actually a contested sentence

Answer 18

The world is such thatit includes the future

Question 19

My example of a contested sentence is:

Answer 19

I possibly have ten heads

Question 20

What is the first way that divers used to show that contested sentences are rationally dispensable

Answer 20

This worldly counterpart

Question 21

Two reasoned why the this worldly counterpart scenario wouldn’t work for real contested sentences

Answer 21

Not connected to actuality- a counterpart wouldn’t exist

If the counterpart did exist, we would be unwilling to call it one

Question 22

What is the second way divers used to show that CS are RD

Answer 22

By the sufficiency of some distict and warranted modal belief I.e. counterfactual

Question 23

Why can’t counterfactuals be a good replacement

Answer 23

We do not know of condition which fulfils antecedent