Summary

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter provides a brief summary of the main arguments and conclusions of earlier chapters, including: the introduction to the core metaphysical concepts used and the property-driven theory of Modal Platonism developed in the book; an overview of how Platonism can explain what it is that unmanifested dispositions are directed towards; arguments against the dominant ‘dispositionalist’ property-driven approaches; responses to potential objections to the book’s core theory; an overview of how Modal Platonism is well placed to provide a satisfactory account of probabilistic and functional laws; and the placement of Platonic theory of natural modality within the broader project of explaining all modal facts in terms of second-order relationships between Platonic properties.