The Possible and Other Kinds of World

• Autorzy: Pasniczek J.
• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

The author argues that possible worlds semantics is counterintuitive and does not to achieve its goals. The definition of the meaning of a sentence as the set of all possible worlds in which the sentence is true is criticized as inadequate; the semantics of modal expressions is shown to be uninformative. Truth-conditions of counterfactuals on one hand, and definitions of law-like expressions (or statements expressing causal connection) on the other hand, are exposed as circular. A further development of indexical semantics - more fine-grained and involving interdisciplinary research into the relationships among the indices - is advocated as an alternative.

Słowa kluczowe

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MEANING; MODALITY; POSSIBLE WORLDS; SEMANTICS

• Wydawca: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Czasopismo: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: 17
• Numer: 2(66)
• Strony: 17-27
• Rodzaj publikacji: ARTICLE

Twórcy

autor

Pasniczek J.

• J. Pasniczek, Uniwersytet Mariin Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filozofii, pl. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

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