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18. Okt. 2013 · Although ‘possible world’ has been part of the philosophical lexicon at least since Leibniz, the notion became firmly entrenched in contemporary philosophy with the development of possible world semantics for the languages of propositional and first-order modal logic.
- Further Problems for Concretism
It follows from E that, for every proposition p, there is at...
- Further Problems for Combinatorialism
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- The Intensionality of Abstractionist Possible World Semantics
The Intensionality of Abstractionist Possible World...
- Problems with Abstractionism
However, making reasonable assumptions about the nature of...
- Rigid Designators
In other places, Kripke seems to have in mind another...
- Further Problems for Concretism
A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic.
Possible world, Conception of a total way the universe might have been. It is often contrasted with the way things actually are. In his Theodicy (1710), G.W. Leibniz used the concept of a possible world in his proposed solution to the theological problem of the existence of evil, arguing that an.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Notes to Possible Worlds. 1. For important applications of possible worlds, see the SEP entries on supervenience, rigid designators, two-dimensional semantics, conditionals, the logic of belief revision, common knowledge, and belief. A particularly illustrative possible worlds analysis of the concept of prudence is found in Bricker 1980. 2.
11. Sept. 2020 · Possible Worlds Theory is an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that has its roots in philosophy. Philosopher Raymond Bradley ( 2009) points out that the term ‘possible worlds’ entered the philosophical lexicon through the writings of German philosopher, Gottfried Leibniz [1646–1716].
- Riyukta Raghunath
- 2020
Possible worlds are widely appealed to in philosophy. At the same time, it is often considered questionable whether there are such entities as possible worlds. Consequently, many proposals exist for reducing possible worlds to entities which may be considered less problematic.
So, this article reviews five kinds of answer to the question about possible worlds: (1) Meinong’s Realism, (2) David Lewis’ Realism, (3) Ersatzism, (4) Fictionalism, and (5) David Armstrong’s hybrid of (3) and (4). The last section considers Quine’s skepticism about the issue and about modality in general. Table of Contents. Meinong’s Realism.
