Worlds and Individuals, Possible and Otherwise

by Takashi Yagisawa

Modal realism says that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual world and individuals. Takashi Yagisawa defends modal realism of a variety different from David Lewis's theory. The notion of reality is left primitive and sharply distinguished from that of existence, which is proposed as a relation between a thing and a domain. Worlds are postulated as modal indices for truth on a par with times, which are temporal indices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199576890
• ISBN13: 9780199576890
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"