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International Standard Book Number  

9781400842292 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

1400842298 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

128337966X

International Standard Book Number  

9781283379663

International Standard Book Number  

9780691147123 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

International Standard Book Number  

0691147124 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

Library of Congress Call Number  

BC199.P7-S73 2012eb

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

160.1

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Stalnaker, Robert.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012

Physical Description  

1 online resource (xii, 167 p)

Series Statement  

Carl G. Hempel lecture series

Bibliography, Etc. Note  

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159) and index.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용On what there isn't (but might have been) -- Merely possible possible worlds -- What is Haecceitism, and is it true? -- Disentangling semantics from metaphysics -- 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.

Summary, Etc.  

요약"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 true in some or all possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that nothing exists except what actually exists, prefers to talk of possible states of the world, or of ways that a world might be. But even the actualist still faces the problem of explaining what we are talking about when we talk about the domains of other possible worlds. In Mere Possibilities, Robert Stalnaker develops a framework for clarifying this problem, and explores a number of actualist strategies for solving it. Some philosophers have hypothesized a realm of individual essences that stand as proxies for all merely possible beings. Others have argued that we are committed to the necessary existence of everything that does or might exist. In contrast, Mere Possibilities shows how we can make sense of ordinary beliefs about what might and must exist without making counterintuitive metaphysical commitments. The book also sheds new light on the nature of metaphysical theorizing by exploring the interaction of semantic and metaphysical issues, the connections between different metaphysical issues, and the nature of ontological commitment."--Dust jacket.

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Possibility

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Modality (Logic)

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Metaphysics

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Philosophy

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PHILOSOPHY / Logic.

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PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Metaphysics.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Modality (Logic).

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Possibility.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionStalnaker, Robert. Mere possibilities. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012 9780691147123 (DLC) 2011939335 (OCoLC)761850758

Series Added Entry-Uniform Title  

Carl G. Hempel lecture series.

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