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| Possibility, philosophy: something is possible if it cannot be excluded. This has to be distinguished from the concept of contingency that expresses that something could have been different._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jaakko Hintikka on Possibility - Dictionary of Arguments
II 210 Possibility/situation/situation semantics/semantics of possible worlds/Hintikka: both approaches, the semantics of possible worlds and situation semantics agree that situations may have several dimensions, e.g. temporal, spatial, the overlapping of relations, inclusion etc. A crucial dimension is the following: Intentionality/intensionality/Hintikka: intentionality and intensionality require the consideration of a background of alternatives (worlds, alternative situations). Solution: there must be a dimension of pure possibility. >Possible world semantics, >Situation semantics, >Situations, >Intentionality. Possibility/dimension/Hintikka: the dimension of the possibility is simply introduced by a pure space-time structure, then we have branches of time that have the same temporal (and if necessary spatial) coordinates as the set s of all situations. Intensional/possibility/Hintikka: when intensional concepts come in, we need a world which is just like a given world, except that everything there is possible. ((s) But it is indistinguishable from the world in which all this is given.) Semantics of possible worlds/situation semantics/Hintikka: then there is the question of how the two still differ at all._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-17