Counts-as: Classification or Constitution? An Answer Using Modal Logic
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By making use of modal logic techniques, the paper disentangles two semantically different readings of statements of the type X counts as Y in context C (the classificatory and the constitutive readings) showing that, in fact, ‘counts-as is said in many ways’.
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