The Conventional Source of De-Re Necessities, Sebastian Obrist (USi)
This is a post by Sebastian Obrist (USi), a speaker from our Spring 2021 Seminar Series. If you would like to attend a seminar, please sign up using this link. You can also download the full schedule here. “We must attempt to determine what grounds what; and it will be largely on this basis that we will be in a position to determine the viability of a realist or anti-realist stand on any given issue.” (Fine 2012, p. 42)1 The source of modality Possibility and its dual notion necessity – in short modality – have throughout the history of