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Yep. You'd think the penny had dropped... but: Yep. And Fucksake.
December 20, 2025 at 20:52
Kripke did not fill out his theory of reference. Never did. It was offered only as an example of how references might be fixed apart from a definite d...
December 20, 2025 at 20:47
Yep. Guilty as charged. I'm trying to discuss Possible World Semantics, and the three interpretations of it that are listed in the SEP article. But ag...
December 20, 2025 at 20:38
And yet, here it is. If that is what Aristotle claimed — and that reading is itself highly questionable — then Aristotle was wrong. He lacked the reso...
December 20, 2025 at 20:35
That was the topic of my Honours thesis. Yep. Spot on. It needs to specify w?.
December 20, 2025 at 20:29
Since @"Ludwig V" quotes this, I might address it. In Lewis' system, each world is spaciotemporally distinct - that is how they are defined. SO there ...
December 20, 2025 at 20:24
Not within the logic. We might do that when we give the edifice an interpretation. Yep. Have a look at your question. See how it is about Aristotle? t...
December 20, 2025 at 20:20
Not mine. Standard definitions for modal logic. "Meta-worlds" sounds like virtual reality? Not too familiar with it. The question of 'where"possible w...
December 20, 2025 at 19:53
Might not be a bad idea to go over the terms being used, since it seems there is some confusion. Exists A thing exists if it is in the domain of a wor...
December 20, 2025 at 04:46
Well, no. What you have offered, a set of assertions, isn’t a theory on a par with possible-worlds semantics. It doesn't provide a formal semantics. P...
December 20, 2025 at 02:47
ok.
December 20, 2025 at 01:59
Well, I do't see an argument that has as it's comnclusion: So we agree that for Possibilists reality includes possibilia, things that could exist but ...
December 20, 2025 at 01:28
, that quote doesn't seem to do what you think it does. But, fine, carry on.
December 20, 2025 at 00:12
See my post
December 20, 2025 at 00:08
Pleased someone notes the drollery! :grin: Yep. Hence the sometime definition of truth simpliciter as "true in w?"... All of our modal logic is "true ...
December 20, 2025 at 00:04
How? Here's what I think you did: summarises the SEP article on actualism vs possibilism. bring in Lewis’ supplementary discussion, noting that Lewis ...
December 19, 2025 at 23:40
Irreducible Modality and Intensional Entities For @"frank", by way of moving along... Put simply, and no doubt losing a whole lot of import thereby, h...
December 19, 2025 at 23:16
Oh, yes - I emphatically agree - natural language comes first; indeed I'd suggest that formal logic is just a game within our natural language, and no...
December 19, 2025 at 23:05
Maybe "number of posts" is indexical.
December 19, 2025 at 22:45
I haven't been replying to you, . Doing so didn't look productive. Is it illegal in NZ for folk without a disability to use a disabled toilet? That wo...
December 19, 2025 at 22:44
Not peculiar, but part of the make up of the language game around its use. I'm certainly using this discussion to show the many problems with thinking...
December 19, 2025 at 22:41
It might be better - and here I go against my desire not to multiply terms unnecessarily - to say that Lewis thought all possible worlds were concrete...
December 19, 2025 at 22:30
Yes, cheers - understood. I find it easier to answer these odd little objections than to move on with the harder stuff of the article, so I find mysel...
December 19, 2025 at 22:24
This shows very clearly and precisely, in a nutshell, the significant and substantial problem with your understanding of possible world semantics. In ...
December 19, 2025 at 22:18
Treat "actual" as an indexical, and this dissipates. It is as if you were arguing that "over there" is meaningless, because it can be made to refer to...
December 19, 2025 at 22:06
That's a choice you make, Meta. For the rest of us, some proposal is contingent if and only if it is true in some, but not all, possible worlds.
December 19, 2025 at 22:02
As regards water and H?O; Kripke pointed out that if water is H?O, if they are indeed identical, then necessarily, they are identical. If they are the...
December 19, 2025 at 21:57
Yeah, and it doesn't help when folk throw "concrete" into the mix... Seems to me that the answer is to understand "actual" as an indexical. It's our w...
December 19, 2025 at 21:50
Chomsky misunderstood Kripke. He got it arse about. Kripke starts with a formal modal logic which fixes individuals across possible worlds in order to...
December 19, 2025 at 21:32
Or, any possible world might have been actual, but only the actual world is actually actual... :wink: Yep.
December 19, 2025 at 21:08
Yours is a good account. That's why I have come back to it - it's close enough to what I understand that I can use it in these explanations. However I...
December 19, 2025 at 21:06
Logical pluralism rather than pragmatism. The challenge is to use formal grammar to exhibit the incoherences and inconsistencies in our philosophical ...
December 19, 2025 at 20:28
Looks right.
December 18, 2025 at 22:42
In standard modal logic there is exactly one actual world. Meta's supposing otherwise is another misunderstanding. We've a set of possible worlds, W, ...
December 18, 2025 at 21:35
Puzzling.
December 18, 2025 at 10:24
RIghto. Carry on.
December 18, 2025 at 05:21
Clarifies, would be a better word. Your is pretty much right. Contingency is modal, potential is causal, such that if we mix the two, then we ought ke...
December 18, 2025 at 04:31
For those reading along, the standard definition of contingency is roughly just that an event is contingent if it is true in some but not all possible...
December 18, 2025 at 04:04
Makes sense.
December 18, 2025 at 03:28
No, not with that, I think. I'm just picking on "includes a's existence". So it's "possible world" that the Abstractionist sets out to define, and use...
December 18, 2025 at 02:53
This thread is now somewhat superfluous... But here's a question for you @"Jamal", nevertheless. Top left, under my profile picture, says I've made 29...
December 18, 2025 at 02:34
Wouldn't this be better expressed as "Individual a exists in possible world w =def w includes a in its domain"? Point being much the same as my aside:...
December 18, 2025 at 02:29
That;s what happens when you ask questions without answers.
December 17, 2025 at 23:27
More parochial stuff. Yes, your education system is a bit fucked. As are your health and social security systems. Other nations are progressing, if sl...
December 17, 2025 at 23:27
So I'll move on to Abstractionism. We might take it as granted that we say things such as "Anne Might be in her office", and that in doing so we are t...
December 17, 2025 at 21:47
Cheers, . Glad to hear that this has been of use to some. Possible World Semantics provides a coherent structure to our modal considerations, a struct...
December 17, 2025 at 20:14
Again, that is the cart before the horse. For Kripke Essence is a consequence, not a beginning.
December 17, 2025 at 05:29
Logic learned to free itself from ontology. Not entirely; the domain, and the notion of "something", remain. That's no bad thing. Those who cannot see...
December 17, 2025 at 05:27
The alternative, as has been pointed out, is that for Meta the actual world is impossible. The rest, again, mischaracterises and misunderstands modal ...
December 17, 2025 at 05:05
Yes, although in a way very different to others hereabouts. An individual's essence, for Kripke, consists in those properties that the individual has ...
December 17, 2025 at 05:01