Between Ockhamism and the Thin Red Line

• Authors: Malpass, Alex Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we will put forward a novel semantics for future contingents. The idea behind the semantics is to be a compromise position between the ‘Ockhamist’ semantics, first put forward by Prior [1966], Thomason [1970] etc., and a version of the Thin Red Line (TRL) semantics recently proposed by Malpass and Wawer [2012]. The new position is able to represent alternative possibilities in two different ways, as actual or counterfactual, which corresponds to a similar distinction in two-dimensional semantics between the primary and secondary intension. We prove a theorem about the notion of validity that results from the new definition, which in the context of the literature about TRL-theories and Ockhamism has some significance.

Keywords

EN

branching time; future contingents; Thin Red Line; temporal logic; formal semantics

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii - Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Diametros
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 55-70

Dates

published

2016-06

Contributors

author

Malpass, Alex Peter

• Department of Philosophy University of Bristol

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Identifiers

DOI

10.13153/diam.48.2016.891