Necessitarian propositions

Jonathan Schaffer

pp. 119-162

in: Rachael Briggs, Mark Jago (eds), Propositions and same-saying, Synthese 189 (1), 2012.

Abstract

The eternalist holds that all propositions specify the needed time information, and so are eternally true if true at all. The necessitarian holds the parallel view for worlds: she holds that all propositions specify the needed world information, and so are necessarily true if true at all. I will argue that the considerations for both views run parallel: the necessitarian can mimic the whole case for eternalism.