Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2020

Gabriel Oak Rabin
Pages 137-139

A short argument from modal rationalism to fundamental scrutability

I argue that those who accept modal rationalism, the idea that all of modal space is accessible to a priori reflection, must also accept a seemingly much more ambitious thesis: fundamental scrutability, which says that from a description of the world's fundamental layer, one can reason a priori to all truths.