@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Stalnaker,Robert}, subject = {Actuality}, note = {I 28 Actuality/Stalnaker: actuality is a relation that a world has to itself and only to itself. Problem: any other world can also have it to itself. That means actuality is contingent. >Contingency, >Self-identity. LewisVsErsatz World: (moderate modal realism): an ersatz world represents the real world as a special one because it represents it as a "way". >ersatz world. StalnakerVsLewis: but it represents it specifically only from its own point of view, not from any. Stalnaker: there is no neutral position outside of each possible world but there is an objective one: the one from the real world. >Actual world, >Perspective. I 31 The thesis that only the real world is actual only makes sense when "actual" means something different than the totality of all that, that is there. >Totality, >Wholes. StalnakerVs: and it does not mean that. I 31 Way a world can be: is an abstract object, abstracted from the activity of the rationally acting. Cf. >Centered worlds.}, note = { Stalnaker I R. Stalnaker Ways a World may be Oxford New York 2003 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=198878} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=198878} }