Mere possibilities: Metaphysical foundations of modal semantics

Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-167

  Stalnaker, Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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