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Single Idea 18415

[filed under theme 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / d. Possible worlds actualism ]

Full Idea

Lewis equates knowing which world is actual with knowing which world one is in.

Gist of Idea

The actual world is just the world you are in

Source

report of David Lewis (Attitudes De Dicto and De Se [1979]) by Cappelen,H/Dever,Josh - The Inessential Indexical 05.1

Book Ref

Cappelen,H/Dever,J: 'The Inessential Indexical' [OUP 2013], p.89

A Reaction

[This view is not, of course, Actualism, but an alternative treatment of actuality, within a multitude of possibilities].

The 5 ideas from 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se'

18415 The actual world is just the world you are in [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]
16392 A content is a property, and believing it is self-ascribing that property [Lewis, by Recanati]
18416 Attitudes involve properties (not propositions), and belief is self-ascribing the properties [Lewis, by Solomon]
16390 Lewis's popular centred worlds approach gives an attitude an index of world, subject and time [Lewis, by Recanati]
18418 A theory of perspectival de se content gives truth conditions relative to an agent [Lewis, by Cappelen/Dever]