modal dualism

21 Mar 2025 - 21 Mar 2025
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    • A term I heard JFM use, in contrast with substance dualism, which is the kind I've been taught to despise my entire life. Not despise exactly – but somehow it is the root of all of western wrongthink. Anyway, modal dualism, if I understand it correctly, does not have the problems of substance dualism. There is one "substance", but it has many ways of being. That seems perfectly sensible.
    • There's no particular reason to stop at dualism (2) is there? So "modal pluralism" would be the better term. Isn't this exactly the topic of Latours late work which I really should read, on Modes of Existence?