Worlds and individuals, possible and otherwise / Takashi Yagisawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yagisawa, Takashi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Logic).

Realism.

Plurality of worlds.

Possibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modal realism says that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual world and individuals. Takashi Yagisawa defends modal realism of a variety different from David Lewis's theory. The notion of reality is left primitive and sharply distinguished from that of existence, which is proposed as a relation between a thing and a domain. Worlds are postulated as modal indices for truth on a par with times, which are temporal indices for truth. Ordinary individualobjects are conceived as being extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions, and their transworld identity is

Contents:

Modal realism

Time, space, world

Existence

Actuality

Modal realism and modal tense

Transworld individuals and their identity

Existensionalism

Impossibility

Proposition and relief

Fictional worlds

Epistemology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-38368-X

9786612383687

0-19-157357-4

OCLC:

539353473