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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 individual objects are conceived as being extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions, and their transworld identity is explicated by the closest-continuer theory. Impossible worlds and individuals are postulated and used to provide accounts of propositions, belief sentences, and fictional discourse.
Theory of knowledge --- Modality (Logic) --- Plurality of worlds. --- Possibility. --- Realism. --- Modality (Logic). --- Realism --- Plurality of worlds --- Possibility
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In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such as truth, reference, and meaning--that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.
Meaning (Philosophy) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy. --- Alfred Tarski. --- Bertrand Russell. --- David Kaplan. --- David Lewis. --- Donald Davidson. --- Gottlob Frege. --- Robert Montague. --- Robert Stalnaker. --- Rudolf Carnap. --- Saul Kripke. --- analytic philosophy. --- assertion. --- counterfactual conditionals. --- formal language. --- implicature. --- language use. --- language. --- linguistic meaning. --- logic. --- mathematical logic. --- mathematics. --- meaning. --- metaphysics. --- natural languages. --- philosophical semantics. --- philosophy. --- possibility. --- possible worlds semantics. --- propositions. --- reference. --- semantics. --- semanticsаragmatics interface. --- truth-theoretic semantics. --- truth. --- world-states.
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