@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
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