Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 40/41
Non-existence/non-existent objects/localization/possible worlds/Hintikka: thesis: any non-existent object is in its own world.
>Possible worlds.
Possible Worlds/Leibniz/Duns Scotus/Hintikka: such considerations led Leibniz and Duns Scotus before him to distribute the unordered set of non-existent individuals to divided worlds.
The totality of all non-existent objects is a non-well-formed whole.
>Possible worlds/Leibniz.
Non-existent objects/possible objects/unrealized possibilities/Hintikka: are not some of these non-existent objects in our own actual world? Hintikka: thesis: yes, some of these barely possible objects are in the actual world.
Bona fide object/Hintikka: a bona fide object can exist in a possible world and might be missing in another possible world.
World Line/Hintikka: when it comes to which world line can be drawn, existence is not the most important problem, the problem is rather being well-defined.
>World lines.
HintikkaVsLeibniz: we also allow that an object can exist in several worlds.
Question: if inhabitants of two different worlds can be identical when are they identical then?
II 73
Possibilia/Hintikka: thesis: the speech about human experience makes the assumption of possibilia necessary (unrealized possibilities, HintikkaVsQuine).
Intentionality/Husserl/Hintikka: according to Husserl, the essence of human thought is in a relationship to unrealized possibilities.
Possibilia/Hintikka: we need possibilia to deal with logically incompatible entities of the same logical type.
>Possibilia.
Semantics of Possible Worlds/Hintikka: the semantics of possible worlds is the corresponding model theory.
>Possible world semantics.