Title: Essence, Potentiality, and Modality Abstract: According to essentialism, metaphysical modality is founded in the essences of things, where the essence of a thing is roughly...

Abstract: This paper investigates the norm of presupposition, as one pervasive type of indirect speech act. It argues against the view that sees presuppositions as...

Abstract. — Precisifications of certain informal concepts could be thought of as instances of conceptual engineering: the concept of a Turing machine (human effective computability), the...