The Possible and Other Kinds of World

• Authors: Pasniczek J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author argues that possible worlds semantics is counterintuitive and does not to achieve its goals. The definition of the meaning of a sentence as the set of all possible worlds in which the sentence is true is criticized as inadequate; the semantics of modal expressions is shown to be uninformative. Truth-conditions of counterfactuals on one hand, and definitions of law-like expressions (or statements expressing causal connection) on the other hand, are exposed as circular. A further development of indexical semantics - more fine-grained and involving interdisciplinary research into the relationships among the indices - is advocated as an alternative.

Keywords

EN

MEANING; MODALITY; POSSIBLE WORLDS; SEMANTICS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2(66)
• Pages: 17-27
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pasniczek J.

• J. Pasniczek, Uniwersytet Mariin Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filozofii, pl. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06401