Mere Possibilities : : Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics / / Robert Stalnaker.
It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. On What There Isn't (But Might Have Been)
- 2. Merely Possible Possible Worlds
- 3. What Is Haecceitism, and Is It True?
- 4. Disentangling Semantics from Metaphysics
- 5. Modal Realism, Modal Rationalism, Modal Naturalism
- Appendix A. Modeling Contingently Existing Propositions
- Appendix B. Propositional Functions and Properties
- Appendix C. A Model for a Mighty Language
- Appendix D. Counterpart Semantics for the Cheap Haecceitist
- References
- Index