Question for people working in analytic #philosophy. Do you think that analysing concepts in terms of distances between possible worlds adds clarity?
It seems to me that our grasp of the geometry of modal space is significantly more tenuous than our pre-analytic grasp of concepts like counterfactual, luck, sensitivity, and so on. But it's a completely accepted, even expected, move in a lot of subdisciplines!
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