Lexicon of Arguments

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Abstract entities/possible world/Lewis: abstract entities do not live in certain possible worlds. They exist simultaneously in all of them.
Properties/Lewis: (2004, 4): at least abstract geometric objects can simply be round, so "round" is not generally a relation to times.
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Schwarz I 42
Def Surrogate Four-Dimensionalism/Schwarz: this position in the philosophy of time interprets other times as abstract entities of a different kind from the present.
LewisVs: other times are just as real.
Lewis doesn't care if you call his worlds concrete or abstract. This has no clear meaning (1986e(1), §1,7).
Schwarz I 43
Ontology/Lewis: Lewis compares his position with the platonism of mathematics: beyond ordinary things there are abstract objects. For these, however, we do not need supernatural cognitive powers.
>Possible Worlds/Plantinga.


1. David Lewis [1986e]: On the Plurality of Worlds. Malden (Mass.): Blackwell.

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