Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 8
Def possibility/Stalnaker: a possibility is a way in which the world can be - but just as the concept of truth does not say what is true and that of existence what exists, the term possibility does not say which possibilities there are.
>Description levels, >Possible worlds/Stalnaker.
I 66
Possibility/criterion/Lewis/Stalnaker: there is no criterion for possibility. Solution: to understand what is possible rather than to decide about it, e.g. whether water could have been something else than H₂O. Ultimately a possibility is about understanding expressions - not about the status of worlds (possible world or impossible world).
>Impossible world.
I 170
Possibility/Stalnaker: a possibility can only be described by way of its possible implementation.
>Description.
I 171
It is useful to distinguish options from the language in which they are being described. It is not excluded that one thing can be reduced to the other in the end.
>Language dependence, >Description-dependence.
I 172
Assertion: a main function of assertions is to transmit information by distinguishing between possibilities.
>Assertions.