@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Chisholm,Roderick}, subject = {Possible Worlds}, note = {I 185f Possible world/essence/Chisholm: since we do not have necessary characteristics (nature), we might be different, but in the same world! (constant background). E.g., if Socrates is necessarily a person, he does not have to exist. - When he was a lawyer, he would be in another world, but it does not follow that he is in another world. - As long as Socrates has no necessary being, every spossible world may exist without him. >Contingency, >Possibility, >Necessity, >Essence, >Essentialism.}, note = { Chisholm I R. Chisholm The First Person. Theory of Reference and Intentionality, Minneapolis 1981 German Edition: Die erste Person Frankfurt 1992 Chisholm II Roderick Chisholm In Philosophische Aufsäze zu Ehren von Roderick M. Ch, Marian David/Leopold Stubenberg, Amsterdam 1986 Chisholm III Roderick M. Chisholm Theory of knowledge, Englewood Cliffs 1989 German Edition: Erkenntnistheorie Graz 2004 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=248988} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=248988} }