Single Idea 6988

[catalogued under 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / e. Against possible worlds]

Full Idea

There is notoriously a problem about what to say concerning mathematical sentences within the possible-worlds framework.

Gist of Idea

Mathematical sentences are a problem in a possible-worlds framework

Source

Frank Jackson (From Metaphysics to Ethics [1998], Ch.3 n25)

Book Reference

Jackson,Frank: 'From Metaphysics to Ethics' [OUP 2000], p.71


A Reaction

Presumably this concerns possible axioms and their combinations.