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On Keeping Blue Swans and Unknowable Facts at Bay: A Case Study on Fitch's Paradox
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On Keeping Blue Swans and Unknowable Facts at Bay: A Case Study on Fitch's Paradox

New Essays on the Knowability Paradox
Oxford University Press
2009-06-04

Abstract

knowability paradox Fitch paradox antirealism modal fictionalism
This chapter develops a Fitch-like paradox for strong modal fictionalism. It argues that the most promising strategy to avoid paradox is to reject the claim that modal claims are to be analyzed in terms of the contents of the fiction of possible worlds. It is hoped that by looking at the parallel case of modal fictionalism light can be shed on the threat posed by Fitch's paradox to semantic anti-realism.

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