Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up?
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Jacek Paśniczek
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to discuss the most general ontological features of possible worlds and situations and to compare the two categories of entity. Possible worlds and situations are formally characterised using the notions of consistency, completeness and deductive closure. Usually the notions appeal to a class of propositions - consequently, to a fixed language. In this paper, we apply an algebraic framework (based on the De Morgan lattice) to render the ontological structure of possible worlds and situations. Such a theoretical move will make ontological issues independent of any language.
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to discuss the most general ontological features of possible worlds and situations and to compare the two categories of entity. Possible worlds and situations are formally characterised using the notions of consistency, completeness and deductive closure. Usually the notions appeal to a class of propositions - consequently, to a fixed language. In this paper, we apply an algebraic framework (based on the De Morgan lattice) to render the ontological structure of possible worlds and situations. Such a theoretical move will make ontological issues independent of any language.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Some Introductory Thoughts on Contemporary Polish Ontology VII
- On Essential Structures and Symmetries 1
- Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View 25
- How Long Does the Present Last? The Problem of Fissuration in Roman Ingarden’s Ontology 51
- The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being 71
- The World as an Object of Formal Philosophy 87
- Logic and the Ontology of Language 109
- Benedict Bornstein’s Ontological Elements of Reality 133
- On the Topological Modelling of Ontological Objects: Substance in the Monadology 149
- Does Mathematical Possibility Imply Existence? 161
- Neologicism for Real(s) – Are We There Yet? 181
- Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up? 205
- The Ontologic of Actions 219
- “Physical Intentionality” and the Thomistic Theory of Formal Objects 245
- An Assessment of Contemporary Polish Ontology 271
- Author Index 295
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Some Introductory Thoughts on Contemporary Polish Ontology VII
- On Essential Structures and Symmetries 1
- Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View 25
- How Long Does the Present Last? The Problem of Fissuration in Roman Ingarden’s Ontology 51
- The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being 71
- The World as an Object of Formal Philosophy 87
- Logic and the Ontology of Language 109
- Benedict Bornstein’s Ontological Elements of Reality 133
- On the Topological Modelling of Ontological Objects: Substance in the Monadology 149
- Does Mathematical Possibility Imply Existence? 161
- Neologicism for Real(s) – Are We There Yet? 181
- Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up? 205
- The Ontologic of Actions 219
- “Physical Intentionality” and the Thomistic Theory of Formal Objects 245
- An Assessment of Contemporary Polish Ontology 271
- Author Index 295
