Single Idea 11850

[catalogued under 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions]

Full Idea

It is perfectly notorious that not every story corresponds to a possible world.

Gist of Idea

Not every story corresponds to a possible world

Source

David Wiggins (Sameness and Substance Renewed [2001], 2.4)

Book Reference

Wiggins,David: 'Sameness and Substance Renewed' [CUP 2001], p.66


A Reaction

Thus a fantasy castle might be decorated with 'beautiful circular squares', or be threatened by a lump of enriched uranium twenty feet in diameter. Wiggins is replying to the claim that a possible world represents a 'story'.