Was Leibniz Entitled to Possible Worlds?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (1):57-74 (1985)
| Abstract | Leibniz has enjoyed a prominent place in the history of thought about possible worlds.' I shall argue that on the feading interpretation of Leibniz's account of contingency ââ¬â an ingenious interpretation with ample textual support ââ¬â possible worlds may be invoked by Leibniz only on pain of inconsistency. Leibnizian contingency, as reconstructed in detail by Robert C. Sleigh, Jr.,z will be shown to preclude propositions with different truth-values in different possible worlds. | |||||||||
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