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- Title
The Irrelevance of Essence.
- Authors
Sullivan, Meghan
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "Miodality and Explanatory Reasoning," by Boris Kment is presented. Topics discussed by the author include the aim of Kment on improving upon the popular modal similarity accounts of counterfactuals, the methodological agenda of Kment on the book, and the statements used by Kment to motivate the explanatory criterion of relevance (ECR) theory.
- Subjects
MODALITY &; Explanatory Reasoning (Book); KMENT, Boris; MODAL logic; REASONING; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); CRITERION (Theory of knowledge)
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2015, Vol 91, Issue 2, p499
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phpr.12213