Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions

Chisholm, Roderick M.

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“…This observation makes it clear that we already have a general solution of the matching problem in (54) The last line of (55), arrived at by steps of deductive inference and inductive reasoning, provides a syntactic match to the second sentence in (54), which bears out the intuitive judgment of themat1c1ty relations we started from.…”

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Dialogue Games: An Approach to Discourse Analysis

Frawley¹,

Carlson²

1984

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“…(53) implies (54) Only one boy is someone who likes only one girl and if they apply right to left, we obtain (55) Only one girl is someone who is liked by only one boy.…”

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Dialogue Games: An Approach to Discourse Analysis

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Carlson²

1984

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“…Modal paradox that shows up from E and T has been taken seriously by philosophers such as Salmon (1979Salmon ( ) (1981Salmon ( ) (1986, Chandler (1976), Forbes (1984Forbes ( ) (1986, Chisholm (1967Chisholm ( ) (1973 that all matter is essential, it is not entailed by E 1 (in a weak reading). E 2 says something quite similar; there is no possible world where O was made of n, matter completely different of m. Adopting the weaker reading to E 1 , it seems to be equivalent to E 2 .…”

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“…One of the first formulations of the paradox was given by Chisholm (1967) and in his formulation the paradox is not conceived in essentialist terms. In the way Chisholm presented the paradox, no essentialist principle is needed and it leads us to bizarre conclusions: first, possibly Adam and Noah are the same person.…”

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“…An anti-essentialist may deny this distinction. However, even if one does not subscribe to any kind of essentialism, it is not obvious that he will be in a better position with respect to some version of the paradox (see Chisholm (1967)). Quine (1976) 1 in a brief consideration of the paradox said that «you can change anything to anything by easy stages through some connecting series of possible worlds» 2 .…”

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Modal Paradox

Furtado¹

2016

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In this paper we are going to deal with a paradox related to metaphysical possibilities -possibilities ruled out by modal metaphysical principles. For our purposes here, the relevant modal principle that we are concerned about is linked to essentiality of the material composition of an artefact. It will be presented here some of the many different formulations for the modal paradox available in literature. There are so many different version of the paradox. Actually, each philosopher who has written about the subject matter usually offer his own version of the paradox. As soon as the paradox's version have been presented, it will be advanced some solutions to the modal paradox available in the literature. Beginning with some more general solutions which go against either essentialist theses or modal discourse itself. And then, presenting some of the more important solutions properly to the modal paradox. Keywords: modal paradox; vagueness; modal logic; essentialism; possibility. ResumoNeste artigo apresento algumas versões do chamado paradoxo modal e algumas soluções disponíveis na literatura. Há inúmeras versões do paradoxo modal disponíveis. 162Aqui vamos analisar mais de perto adaptação de quatro delas: a versão apresentada por Nathan Salmon, a versão de Roderick Chisholm, além de duas versões apresentadas por Sarah Leslie. O paradoxo modal surge de duas intuições modais acerca da essência de artefactos materiais: i) uma modificação parcial na composição material de um artefacto material é possível e, ii) uma modificação total não é possível. Essas intuições modais são a base para todas as versões que serão apresentadas aqui, a excluir apenas a versão de Chisholm. A versão de Leslie é apresentada com o intuito de mostrar que talvez o fenômeno semântico da vagueza não desempenhe papel fundamental para o surgimento de paradoxos modais. Após apresentação das versões do paradoxo, apresento algumas das soluções mais importantes disponíveis na literatura.

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Identity and Discrimination

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Identity through Possible Worlds: Some Questions

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Dialogue Games: An Approach to Discourse Analysis

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