Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 75
Event/opportunity/possibilia/disposition/Goodman: possible physical events: a possible physical event is, if one says that k is flexible at the time s, so one actually describes a fictional event that is taking place at the time s on k. The real event is no Biggen. But if you call it a possible Biggen so you subsume it only under the disposition predicate "flexible".
II 76
But if I know that the train has arrived on time, then any talk of a possible disaster is to be understood quite differently. Statements of this second kind raise the urgent translation problem.
II 77
One can move fictitious mountains to London in true statements, simply by applying a certain continuation of the predicate "mountainous" to London.
II 78
Statements about what is possible do not need to exceed the boundaries of the real world. We often confuse a description of the real world with it itself.
>Possibility, >Fiction, >Knowledge.