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Лоу</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Metaphysical and nomic modalities in J. Lowe’s serious essentialism</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9556-2795</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сырмич</surname><given-names>С. Ю.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Syrmich</surname><given-names>S. Yu.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Семен Юрьевич Сырмич - аспирант, кафедра онтологии, теории познания и методологии науки</p><p>Новосибирск</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Semyon Yu. Syrmich - PhD-student, Chair of Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology of Science</p><p>Novosibirsk</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">s.syrmich@g.nsu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Новосибирский государственный университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Novosibirsk State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>10</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>5</fpage><lpage>32</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Сырмич С.Ю., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Сырмич С.Ю.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Syrmich S.Y.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://sibphil.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/755">https://sibphil.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/755</self-uri><abstract><p>Цель работы – показать, как в рамках серьезного эссенциализма Джонатана Лоу возможно частичное решение проблемы взаимосвязи между разными типами модальности. Согласно эссенциалистским концепциям модальности, сущность онтологически и эпистемически предшествует любым модальным фактам. В этом смысле очевидна связь сущности и метафизической модальности, однако связь сущности и других типов модальности, как правило, остается за рамками интереса исследователей. Дж. Лоу в ряде своих работ делает акцент на естественной модальности, которая связывается с существованием законов природы. Но как связаны естественная модальность ссущностью или метафизической модальностью, не объясняется. Опираясь на представление Дж. Лоу о том, что в сущности вещи можно выделить фундаментальную общую (fundamental general) и конкретную общую (speciﬁc general) части, мы утверждаем, что в реальном определении вещи, которое и выражает ее сущность, мы могли бы выделять смысловые части, которые и будут задавать метафизическую сущность и естественную сущность соответственно. Метафизическая сущность соответствует фундаментальной общей, а естественная – конкретной общей частям сущности. Знание о метафизической модальности основывается на знании метафизической сущности, она должна познаваться априорно. Естественная сущность, наоборот, должна открываться апостериорно, посредством апелляции к эмпирическому исследованию. Знание о естественной модальности основывается на знании естественной сущности. Тем самым, мы получаем частное решение проблемы взаимосвязи метафизической и естественной модальности в онтологии Дж. Лоу.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The paper aims to demonstrate how, within the framework of Jonathan Lowe’s serious essentialism, a partial solution to the navigation problem between diﬀerent types of modality may be possible. According to essentialist concepts of modality, essence ontologically and epistemically precedes any modal facts. In this sense, the connection between essence and metaphysical modality is clear, but the connection between essence and other types of modality generally remains outside the scope of researchers’ interest. In a number of his works, J. Lowe emphasizes natural/nomic modality, which is associated with the laws of nature. However, he does not explain how nomic modality is related to essence or metaphysical modality. Based on J. Lowe’s position, according to which the essence of an entity can be divided into fundamental general and speciﬁc general parts, we argue that within the real deﬁnition of an entity, which expresses its essence, we could distinguish such meaningful parts as metaphysical essence and natural essence. The former would correspond to the fundamental general part of essence, and the latter to the speciﬁc general part. Metaphysical essence must be known a priori, and knowledge of metaphysical modality would be based on our knowledge of metaphysical essence. Natural essence must be discovered a posteriori, through empirical research, and knowledge of nomic modality would be based on our knowledge of natural essence. Thus, we obtain a particular solution to the navigation problem of the relationship between metaphysical and natural/nomic modality within the J. Lowe’s ontology.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>эссенциализм</kwd><kwd>сущность</kwd><kwd>реальное определение</kwd><kwd>метафизическая модальность</kwd><kwd>естественная модальность</kwd><kwd>проблема взаимосвязи</kwd><kwd>Дж. Лоу</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>essentialism</kwd><kwd>essence</kwd><kwd>real definition</kwd><kwd>metaphysical modality</kwd><kwd>nomic modality</kwd><kwd>navigation problem</kwd><kwd>J. Lowe</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Bryant A., Wilson A. Modal Naturalism. 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