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TICHÝ´S POSSIBLE WORLDS

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Raclavský J.
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
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2014
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vol. 21
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issue 4
471 – 491
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Pavel Tichý originally published his interesting conception of possible worlds in 1968. Even though he modified it over the following twenty five years, its core remained unchanged. None of his thirty journal papers or books containing the notion of possible worlds was a study in metaphysics. Tichý (and most of his followers) always introduced the notion in the context of other investigations where he applied his Transparent Intensional Logic either to the semantic analysis of natural language or to the explications of other notions. Tichý presented his conceptions using rather short descriptions occurring on a number of places; his proposal appears not only fragmentary but also somehow incoherent. The main contribution of this paper is thus not only a complete survey of Tichý’s development of his conception but also a certain completion of the very proposal.
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FICTA AS CONTINGENTLY NONCONCRETE

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Lightfield C.
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
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2014
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vol. 21
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issue 4
431 – 457
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Fictional realism allows direct reference theorists to provide a straightforward analysis of the semantics of fictional discourse by admitting into their ontology a set of objects (ficta) that serve as the referents of fictional names. Ficta may be modelled using an axiomatic object theory, but actualise interpretations of the formalism have been the subject of recent objections. In this paper, the author provides an interpretation of object theory’s formalism that is consistent with actualism and avoids these objections. Drawing on insights from an actual semantics for quantified modal logic, a central point in his proposal is to interpret ficta as contingently nonconcrete objects.
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COMBINATORIAL THEORIES OF POSSIBLE WORLDS AND THEIR PERSPECTIVES

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Tomala O.
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
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2007
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vol. 14
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issue 2
148-176
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Analysis of alethic modality and the related notion of possible world have played important if not crucial role in the analytic philosophy of the 20th century. The mainstream in the theories of possible worlds, so called Actualism, is currently predominated by the theories, which define possible worlds as set-theoretical objects composed of propositions. Other theories are usually being dismissed by a set of rather standard criticisms. The aim of this paper is to show the problems that the propositional theories have to face and to argue that one of the alternative theories, namely Combinatorialism, provides much better basis for analysis of alethic modality than it is usually thought.
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