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- Title
From Physical to Metaphysical Necessity.
- Authors
Roberts, Alexander
- Abstract
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 characterized intimately in terms of physical necessity. This is philosophically significant, for on a natural understanding it constitutes the powerful anti-sceptical result that those who believe in physical necessity should not harbour any scepticism towards merely metaphysical possibilities.
- Subjects
NOMOLOGICAL networks; THEOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; SKEPTICISM; AGNOSTICISM
- Publication
Mind, 2022, Vol 131, Issue 524, p1216
- ISSN
0026-4423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/mind/fzab032