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(2017) The language of thought in late medieval philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter argues that the author's earlier argument for the claim that the new nominalist conception of concept-identity significantly contributed to the emergence of what became known as "Demon-skepticism" after Descartes, needs to be supplemented by further considerations concerning the type of modalities involved. More specifically, the possibility of the "full-blown, solipsistic Demon-skepticism" envisioned by Descartes requires, besides the nominalist conception of concept-identity clearly present in Adam Wodeham's work, the type of non-S5 modality espoused by Descartes which was still not endorsed by Wodeham.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66634-1_22
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Klima, G. (2017)., Thought-transplants, demons, and modalities, in J. Pelletier & M. Roques (eds.), The language of thought in late medieval philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 369-381.
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