It's strange to hear from old timers that the guiding ethos of the 50's weren't the best time in American history. I always looked at the 50's as some...
Not really. I already said what I thought worth mentioning. I tried, you tried. There's nothing more to address here. I consider the thread finished b...
I'm not sure everyone knows that. But just to clarify we usually appeal to de dicto (from our world) and then stipulate a de re about Superman in a po...
It's important because people get somewhat confused when stipulating a de re modality in a possible world whilst believing that the identity of the in...
Necessity de re: is a controversial form of necessity which assumes that it can be stated about objects whether or not they necessarily have certain p...
Because when we speak about Superman, we can posit his existence in a possible world as a counterpart or a counterfactual. Whereas, people claim that ...
Oh, okay. I think it's important to make a distinction here about properties of objects and properties of individuals. Would it be accurate to label d...
If you really need a physical grounding for entertaining the notion of possible worlds, then assume the many worlds interpretation...AND there's no is...
Anyways, since the issue raised by @"litewave" often crops up in these discussions, here's a link. Fraught with controversy, I believe: https://plato....
Yes, a world which is called a possible world ... The issue of personal identity is somewhat justified by the fact that my identity is consistent with...
I would argue that that is too strictly a transcendental argument. Every day we make choices where seemingly we could have done something otherwise. E...
Could you provide that argument? I'm reading the paper again and see that Wiggins argument seems to point out the fact that sometimes we refer to the ...
Sorry, but if you read the paper, Kripke posits the logicality on the empirical finding that Hesperus is Phosphorus. It's only a contingent identity s...
Sorry, but it's entirely legitimate to ascribe the predicate of existence of Mary in a possible world. Why is there so much confusion about counterpar...
I'm on page 15 out of 30. It's an easy read if you're aquatinted with Naming and Necessity, which you can find here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/di...
I only mentioned the beetle in a box because of the mention of what you alluded to as some aspect of meaning that isn't expressed, the intensionality ...
What @"Tom Storm" seems to be alluding to is that we have beetles in boxes, pace Wittgenstein... What I'm alluding to is that there's something about ...
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