The Impossible An Essay on Hyperintensionality
The Impossible An Essay on Hyperintensionality
- ISBN 13:
9780198709008
- ISBN 10:
0198709005
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 06/24/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In The Impossible, Jago argues that we often gain new information, new beliefs and, sometimes, fresh knowledge through logic, mathematics and philosophy. That is why logic, mathematics, and philosophy are useful. We therefore require accounts of knowledge and belief, of information and content, and of meaning which allow space for the impossible. Jago's aim in this book is to provide such accounts. He gives a detailed analysis of the concept of hyperintensionality, whereby logically equivalent contents may be distinct, and develops a theory in terms of possible and impossible worlds. Along the way, he provides a theory of what those worlds are and how they feature in our analysis of normative epistemic concepts: knowledge, belief, information, and content.