Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Any semantic framework that successfully explains the truth conditions of modal claims must appeal to something that makes those conditions obtain, which is a substantive metaphysical commitment.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Truth conditions can be explained via formal semantics without ontological commitment to what 'grounds' those conditions.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Possible worlds semantics is a mathematical tool for modeling modal logic, not a claim about mind-independent reality.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.The demand for truthmakers confuses explaining truth conditions (explanatory adequacy) with metaphysical grounding (separate issue).
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Truth requires truthmakers: propositions are true only if something in reality makes them true, not by convention alone.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Modal claims (necessity, possibility) express genuine truths about reality, not mere linguistic or conceptual conventions.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Explaining what makes modal claims true unavoidably commits us to entities like possible worlds or modal properties.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.