Jacquette, Dale (2014). Against Logically Possible World-Relativized Existence. Metaphysica, 15(1), pp. 85-98. De Gruyter 10.1515/mp-2014-0006
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The thesis that entities exist in, at, or in relation to logically possible worlds is criticized. The suggestion that actually nonexistent fictional characters might nevertheless exist in nonactual merely logically possible worlds runs afoul of the most general transworld identity requirements. An influential philosophical argument for the concept of world-relativized existence is examined in Alvin Plantinga’s formal development and explanation of modal semantic relations. Despite proposing an attractive unified semantics of alethic modality, Plantinga’s argument is rejected on formal grounds as supporting materially false actual existence assertions in the case of actually nonexistent objects in the framework of Plantinga’s own underlying classical predicate-quantificational logic.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Philosophy > Theoretical Philosophy |
UniBE Contributor: |
Jacquette, Dale |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy |
ISSN: |
1874-6373 |
Publisher: |
De Gruyter |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Caroline Bolz |
Date Deposited: |
26 Mar 2015 13:51 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:44 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1515/mp-2014-0006 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.65892 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/65892 |
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