Comments on: Logical Absurdity http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/logical-absurdity/ Trance Music, Philosophy and Politics. The official homepage of philosopher artist: Illusive Mind. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Richard http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/logical-absurdity/#comment-9 Richard Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:08:00 +0000 http://www.illusive-mind.com/philosophy/logical-absurdity/#comment-9 Yeah, that's a problem I've been struggling with recently too. It is difficult to see how our modal intuitions could have any genuine grounding - so I share your skepticism about the whole endeavor. [See my post <a HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fpixnaps.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F09%2Fso-many-possibilities.html" rel="nofollow">here</A>, and the "more detail" section of <a HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fpixnaps.blogspot.com%2F2004%2F09%2Fmore-modality.html" rel="nofollow">this post</A>. If you have any ideas to add to either post, comments are always welcome!] Probably the best we can do here is appeal to a pragmatic justification of some sort. I hope to write up a post further exploring that idea (and more generally a "naturalized modality"), some time in the near future... Yeah, that’s a problem I’ve been struggling with recently too. It is difficult to see how our modal intuitions could have any genuine grounding - so I share your skepticism about the whole endeavor. [See my post here, and the “more detail” section of this post. If you have any ideas to add to either post, comments are always welcome!]

Probably the best we can do here is appeal to a pragmatic justification of some sort. I hope to write up a post further exploring that idea (and more generally a “naturalized modality”), some time in the near future…

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