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Full Idea
One might hope to reduce possible worlds to properties.
Gist of Idea
One might hope to reduce possible worlds to properties
Source
Chris Swoyer (Properties [2000], 4.1)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.18
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').