Visible Modality——An Exploration of Modal Perception Theory
It seems counterintuitive to grasp modal knowledge by perception,e.g.,to see that something could have been otherwise.Contemporary modal epistemologists also seem to acquiesce:there is no perceptual modal knowledge.However,such an unexamined view is not reasonable.On the basis of clarifying the meaning of knowl-edge as perception,some examples of perceptual modal knowledge can be found.Seemingly counterintuitive per-ceptual modal knowledge may not be so implausible as people think.