an epistemically responsible, spare ontology

07 March 2006

outline 0.1

One approach to the presentation of the view that the fundamental notion of necessity is conceptual necessity (I call the thesis 'CNF') is, first, a spelling out of the basic thesis, followed by an initial list of some of the commitments incurred by the basic thesis. After that, we could take much more care in a detailed work-up of each of those commitments and responses to the difficulties raised.
Also, it seems that there should be some sort of fairly general discussion of how CNF can account for the intuitions that would lead one to hold a two-dimensional semantics (2DS) view. And also some general discussion of the epistemological and methodological virtues of CNF vis-a-vis 2DS. I've made a first outline reflecting these desiderata.

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