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cma on April 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Future of Humanity Institute shuts down

I think it's maybe that he kind of rebranded modal realism into his own concept.

skissane on April 18, 2024 [–]

His flavour of "modal realism" is rather different from those of David Lewis or Takashi Yagisawa – the way he intersected that with debates about mathematical Platonism – original and interesting

I doubt he's right, but novel wrongness is admirable in a way that same old wrongness

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