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Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Stephen Wolfram and Chris Swoyer

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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

10406	One might hope to reduce possible worlds to properties [Swoyer]
	Full Idea: One might hope to reduce possible worlds to properties.
	From: Chris Swoyer (Properties [2000], 4.1)
	A reaction: [He cites Zalta 1983 4.2, and Forrest 1986] I think we are dealing with nothing more than imagined possibilities, which are inferred from our understanding of the underlying 'powers' of the actual world (expressed as 'properties').

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

15377	Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting]
	Full Idea: Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds quite naturally.
	From: Melvin Fitting (Intensional Logic [2007], 3.4)
	A reaction: A definite description can pick out the same object in another possible world, or a very similar one, or an object which has almost nothing in common with the others.