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Single Idea 11850
[filed under theme 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / b. Worlds as fictions
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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 Ref
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'.
The
39 ideas
from 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'
14746
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What exists can't depend on our conceptual scheme, and using all conceptual schemes is too liberal
[Sider on Wiggins]
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11900
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We can accept criteria of distinctness and persistence, without making the counterfactual claims
[Mackie,P on Wiggins]
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11896
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A sortal essence is a thing's principle of individuation
[Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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15835
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Wiggins's sortal essentialism rests on a thing's principle of individuation
[Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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10679
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'Sortalism' says parts only compose a whole if it falls under a sort or kind
[Wiggins, by Hossack]
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14363
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Identity a=b is only possible with some concept to give persistence and existence conditions
[Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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14364
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A thing is necessarily its highest sortal kind, which entails an essential constitution
[Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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14749
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Identity is an atemporal relation, but composition is relative to times
[Wiggins, by Sider]
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14744
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Objects can only coincide if they are of different kinds; trees can't coincide with other trees
[Wiggins, by Sider]
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14362
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Relative Identity is incompatible with the Indiscernibility of Identicals
[Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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11831
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The formal properties of identity are reflexivity and Leibniz's Law
[Wiggins]
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11832
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We learn a concept's relations by using it, without reducing it to anything
[Wiggins]
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11836
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We can use 'concept' for the reference, and 'conception' for sense
[Wiggins]
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11838
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Relativity of Identity makes identity entirely depend on a category
[Wiggins]
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11839
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Do both 'same f as' and '=' support Leibniz's Law?
[Wiggins]
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11847
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To identify two items, we must have a common sort for them
[Wiggins]
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11848
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Asking 'what is it?' nicely points us to the persistence of a continuing entity
[Wiggins]
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11843
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Identity over a time and at a time aren't different concepts
[Wiggins]
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11841
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The evening star is the same planet but not the same star as the morning star, since it is not a star
[Wiggins]
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11850
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Not every story corresponds to a possible world
[Wiggins]
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11844
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If I destroy an item, I do not destroy each part of it
[Wiggins]
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11851
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Many predicates are purely generic, or pure determiners, rather than sortals
[Wiggins]
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11852
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Is the Pope's crown one crown, if it is made of many crowns?
[Wiggins]
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11845
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Substitutivity, and hence most reasoning, needs Leibniz's Law
[Wiggins]
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11858
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The question is not what gets the title 'Theseus' Ship', but what is identical with the original
[Wiggins]
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11859
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The mind conceptualizes objects; yet objects impinge upon the mind
[Wiggins]
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11860
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Lawlike propensities are enough to individuate natural kinds
[Wiggins]
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11869
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Possible worlds rest on the objects about which we have suppositions
[Wiggins]
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11870
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Activity individuates natural things, functions do artefacts, and intentions do artworks
[Wiggins]
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11863
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(λx)[Man x] means 'the property x has iff x is a man'.
[Wiggins]
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11861
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We can forget about individual or particularized essences
[Wiggins]
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11864
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Hesperus=Hesperus, and Phosphorus=Hesperus, so necessarily Phosphorus=Hesperus
[Wiggins]
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11865
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The possibility of a property needs an essential sortal concept to conceive it
[Wiggins]
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11866
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The idea of 'thisness' is better expressed with designation/predication and particular/universal
[Wiggins]
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11871
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Essences are not explanations, but individuations
[Wiggins]
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11875
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Boundaries are not crucial to mountains, so they are determinate without a determinate extent
[Wiggins]
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11876
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It is easier to go from horses to horse-stages than from horse-stages to horses
[Wiggins]
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11879
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Essentialism is best represented as a predicate-modifier: □(a exists → a is F)
[Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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11835
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The nominal essence is the idea behind a name used for sorting
[Wiggins]
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