A brief survey of possibility and necessity (2016/2024)

The following sketch is essentially a translation of the resumé of Part II of the book of Ursula Wolf on Possibility and Necessity in Aristotle and today.¹ What is claimed in this resumé is closely argued for on almost 400 pages of the book before this resumé. Of course the arguments are at most adumbrated in this sketch. I found it useful to translate it because it can serve as a model of (the results of) a descriptive clarification of a conceptual field and therefore of a philosophical investigation.

By way of introduction I perhaps should add the following. Wolf presents an analysis which is in broad terms an epistemic one. The approach is justified in an extended critique of Kripke's alleged metaphysical necessity in § 20 of the book (pp.188-212). [Wolf has translated Naming & Necessity into German.]

A brief survey of possibility and necessity (2016/2024)

Veröffentlicht von michael am 4. August 2024

A brief survey of possibility and necessity (2016/2024)