Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' and 'Explanation - Opening Address'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

2 ideas

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds

6988	Mathematical sentences are a problem in a possible-worlds framework [Jackson]
	Full Idea: There is notoriously a problem about what to say concerning mathematical sentences within the possible-worlds framework.
	From: Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.3 n25)
	A reaction: Presumably this concerns possible axioms and their combinations.

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

6975	Possible worlds could be concrete, abstract, universals, sentences, or properties [Jackson]
	Full Idea: Possible worlds might be concrete (Lewis), or abstract (Stalnaker), or structured universals (Forrest), or collections of sentences (Jeffrey), or mere combinations of properties and relations (Armstrong).
	From: Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.1)
	A reaction: A helpful summary. I don't like concrete, or collections of sentences. Whatever they are, they had better be 'possible', so not any old collection or idea will do.