Add to ORKGSpinoza reasons about impossibilities on a regular basis. But he also says they're unthinkable and that reasoning is a mental process. How can he do this? The paper defends a linguistic account of counterpossible inferences in Spinoza's geometrical method
Some scholars have understood that Spinoza’s extreme rationalism, nominalism, conventionalism, and r...
Several theorists have been attracted to the idea that in order to account for counterpossibles, i.e...
Spinoza's Ethics self-consciously follows the example of Euclid and other geometers in its use of ax...
Spinoza reasons about impossibilities on a regular basis. But he also says they're unthinkable and t...
This article offers an analysis and defense of the solution proposed by Spinoza to the “Cartesian ci...
A counterpossible is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Counterpossibles present a puzz...
Material from this paper appears in Chap. 7 of my book Reason and Being, but there is also stuff her...
This paper examines Spinoza’s view on the consistency of mental representation. First, I argue that ...
This paper explores three ways in which physics may involve counterpossible reasoning. The first way...
Some scholars have understood that Spinoza’s extreme rationalism, nominalism, conventionalism, and r...
Several theorists have been attracted to the idea that in order to account for counterpossibles, i.e...
Spinoza's Ethics self-consciously follows the example of Euclid and other geometers in its use of ax...
Spinoza reasons about impossibilities on a regular basis. But he also says they're unthinkable and t...
This article offers an analysis and defense of the solution proposed by Spinoza to the “Cartesian ci...
A counterpossible is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Counterpossibles present a puzz...
Material from this paper appears in Chap. 7 of my book Reason and Being, but there is also stuff her...
This paper examines Spinoza’s view on the consistency of mental representation. First, I argue that ...
This paper explores three ways in which physics may involve counterpossible reasoning. The first way...
Some scholars have understood that Spinoza’s extreme rationalism, nominalism, conventionalism, and r...
Several theorists have been attracted to the idea that in order to account for counterpossibles, i.e...
Spinoza's Ethics self-consciously follows the example of Euclid and other geometers in its use of ax...