Should We Be Agnostics About Pw Flashcards
Does the agnostic think pw Lang is truly analytic
Yes
Does the agnostic deny truth or refuse to assert it?
Refuse to assert it
How many accounts does divers fail to show the modal claims are rationally dispensable?
2
What warrant does the MA require
Conceptual, local, semantic
Functional constraint: modal analysis must fulfil ______ and ______ needs
Intellectual and practical
Modal function: no more ______ than necessary for a.
Substantial
Which part of functional model can’t the MA answer?
Intellectual and practical needs
What kind of agnostic must we be to deny the existence of things?
Moderate
An example of something we have logical warrant for
A and not-a
The worldly statement the agnostic can make for unrestricted negative existential claims
There is no world where something is blue and green all over
The modal statement the agnostic can make
It is impossible for something to be blue and green all over
Like the realist, the agnostic can ______ over the existence that they have warrant for
Quantify
The modal agnostic can give a _________ Account to show her Statement are not _________
Reductionist, primitive
Types of modal assertions the agnostic can make are:
Possibility connected to actuality, counterfactuals, restricted necessity and impossibility claims
What are the featured of contested sentences
Entails the existence of a possible world that satisfies a non-modal condition
The actual world does not satisfy that condition
Divers example of a contested sentence
I can possibly overtake successfully
Rendering the assertabilty deficit void involves….
Showing the contested sentences are rationally dispensable
Why is divers example not actually a contested sentence
The world is such thatit includes the future
My example of a contested sentence is:
I possibly have ten heads
What is the first way that divers used to show that contested sentences are rationally dispensable
This worldly counterpart
Two reasoned why the this worldly counterpart scenario wouldn’t work for real contested sentences
Not connected to actuality- a counterpart wouldn’t exist
If the counterpart did exist, we would be unwilling to call it one
What is the second way divers used to show that CS are RD
By the sufficiency of some distict and warranted modal belief I.e. counterfactual
Why can’t counterfactuals be a good replacement
We do not know of condition which fulfils antecedent
