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'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Analyzing Modality' and 'Naming and Necessity lectures'
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds
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We have no idea how many 'possible worlds' there might be [Jubien]
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If there are no other possible worlds, do we then exist necessarily? [Jubien]
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If all possible worlds just happened to include stars, their existence would be necessary [Jubien]
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Possible worlds just give parallel contingencies, with no explanation at all of necessity [Jubien]
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If other worlds exist, then they are scattered parts of the actual world [Jubien]
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Worlds don't explain necessity; we use necessity to decide on possible worlds [Jubien]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds
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Possible worlds aren't puzzling places to learn about, but places we ourselves describe [Kripke]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity
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If we discuss what might have happened to Nixon, we stipulate that it is about Nixon [Kripke]
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Transworld identification is unproblematic, because we stipulate that we rigidly refer to something [Kripke]
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A table in some possible world should not even be identified by its essential properties [Kripke]
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Identification across possible worlds does not need properties, even essential ones [Kripke]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation
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Test for rigidity by inserting into the sentence 'N might not have been N' [Kripke, by Lycan]
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Kripke avoids difficulties of transworld identity by saying it is a decision, not a discovery [Kripke, by Jacquette]
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Saying that natural kinds are 'rigid designators' is the same as saying they are 'indexical' [Kripke, by Putnam]
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If Kripke names must still denote a thing in a non-actual situation, the statue isn't its clay [Gibbard on Kripke]
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A rigid expression may refer at a world to an object not existing in that world [Kripke, by Sainsbury]
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We do not begin with possible worlds and place objects in them; we begin with objects in the real world [Kripke]
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It is a necessary truth that Elizabeth II was the child of two particular parents [Kripke]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts
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We mustn't confuse a similar person with the same person [Jubien]
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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
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That there might have been unicorns is false; we don't know the circumstances for unicorns [Kripke]
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