RELATIVE-SAMENESS COUNTERPART THEORY

RELATIVE-SAMENESS COUNTERPART THEORY

Just as set theory can be divorced from Ernst Zermelo's original axiomatization of it, counterpart theory can be divorced from the eight postulates that were originally stipulated by David Lewis (1968, p. 114) to constitute it. These were postulates governing some of the properties and relation...

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Veröffentlicht in:The review of symbolic logic 2008-08, Vol.1 (2), p.167-189
1. Verfasser: FARA, DELIA GRAFF
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Axioms
Set theory
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Zusammenfassung:Just as set theory can be divorced from Ernst Zermelo's original axiomatization of it, counterpart theory can be divorced from the eight postulates that were originally stipulated by David Lewis (1968, p. 114) to constitute it. These were postulates governing some of the properties and relations holding among possible worlds and their inhabitants. In particular, counterpart theory can be divorced from Lewis's postulate P2, the stipulation that individuals are ‘world bound’—that none exists in more than one possible world
ISSN:1755-0203
1755-0211
DOI:10.1017/S1755020308080155