Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'How to Define Theoretical Terms' and 'works'

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 / d. Possible worlds actualism

16376	The possible can only be general, and the force of actuality is needed to produce a particular [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The possible is necessarily general…..It is only actuality, the force of existence, which bursts the fluidity of the general and produces a discrete unit.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (works [1892]), quoted by François Recanati - Mental Files 13.1
	A reaction: [Papers 4 1967:147] This was quoted by Prior, and is often cited. Recanati is interested in the notion of a singular thought being tied to actuality, by generating a mental file.

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

15530	A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis]
	Full Idea: A logically determinate name is one which names the same thing in every possible world.
	From: David Lewis (How to Define Theoretical Terms [1970], III)
	A reaction: This appears to be rigid designation, before Kripke introduced the new word.