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Contingent Truth

Contingent Truth is a proposition that is true in the actual world but false in at least one accessible possible world, thereby depending on the contingent state of affairs rather than being necessarily true across all possible worlds.

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2017–2026

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Contingent Proposition

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Future Contingents and Relative Truth

John MacFarlane · The Philosophical Quarterly · 2003 · 612 citations · Full text

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Three theses about dispositions

Elizabeth W. Prior, Robert Pargetter, Frank Jackson · American Philosophical Quarterly · 1982 · 383 citations

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Why the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles is not contingently true either

Steven French · Synthese · 1989 · 75 citations

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The Paradox of Sufficient Reason

Samuel Levey · The Philosophical Review · 2016 · 69 citations

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RESISTING IMAGINATIVE RESISTANCE

Kathleen Stock · The Philosophical Quarterly · 2005 · 63 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JJ
    Julia Jansen

    University College Cork, Ireland

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  2. JB
    John Boler

    1 publications · 61 citations

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  3. SF
    Steven French

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 75 citations

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  4. SL
    Samuel Levey

    Dartmouth College, United States

    1 publications · 69 citations

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  5. MM
    Michela Massimi

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

19

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    612 citations

  2. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    48 citations

  3. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

    Campinas, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

  4. Palo Alto University

    Palo Alto, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  5. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    50 citations

  7. Swansea University

    Swansea, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

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Venues

  1. Analysis

    2 publications · 60 citations

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  2. The Philosophical Quarterly

    2 publications · 675 citations

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  3. Philosophy Compass

    2 publications · 71 citations

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  4. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    PPR · 2 publications · 72 citations

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  5. Southwestern Journal of Philosophy

    1 publications · 11 citations

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