Could It Be So? The Cognitive Science of Possibility

Published on December 21, 2019

As philosophers, linguists, and psychologists have long recognized, representing possibilities is central to mental life. Modal concepts (possible, necessary, impossible) are fundamental to moral reasoning (e.g., in distinctions between permissible, impermissible, and obligatory) and in formal mathematics and logic (e.g., where deductive necessity is the relation between axiomatic primitives and the conclusions licensed by derivational rules).

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