Sufficient absences

Analysis 63 (3):202-208 (2003)
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In this paper, I argue that subvenient bases of natural kinds and also of thoughts, must be ocnstrued as involving absences.

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Subject, Thought, And Context.Philip Pettit (ed.) - 1986 - NY: Clarendon Press.
What the externalist can know A Priori.Paul A. Boghossian - 1997 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (2):161-75.

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