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Introduction: Conceivability and possibility
In Tamar Szabo Gendler & John Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility. New York: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 1--70 (2002)
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To what extent and how is conceivability a guide to possibility? This essay explores general philosophical issues raised by this question, and critically surveys responses to it by Descartes, Hume, Kripke and "two-dimensionalists.".Author Profiles
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