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Single Idea 15069

[from 'Necessity and Non-Existence' by Kit Fine, in 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds ]

Full Idea

An alternative conception of a possible world says it is constituted, not by the totality of facts, or of how things might be, but by the totality of circumstances, or how things might turn out.

Gist of Idea

Possible worlds may be more limited, to how things might actually turn out

Source

Kit Fine (Necessity and Non-Existence [2005], 02)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.325


A Reaction

The general idea is to make a possible world more limited than in Idea 15068. It only contains properties arising from 'engagement with the world', and won't include timeless sentences. It is a bunch of possibilities, not of actualities?

Related Idea

Idea 15068 The actual world is a totality of facts, so we also think of possible worlds as totalities [Fine,K]