Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise

Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780199576890
ISBN-13 : 0199576890
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Download or read book Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise written by Takashi Yagisawa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takashi Yagisawa argues for a new version of modal realism, the view that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual ones. He asserts that the notion of reality is primitive, existence is a relation between a thing and a domain, and ordinary objects are extended in spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions.


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