Schwarz I 30
Def Perdurantism/Schwarz: thesis: timely extended things are usually composed of temporal parts.
Schwarz I 31
Def Endurantism/Schwarz: (VsPerdurantism): thesis: things are completely (not only partially) present at any time at which they exist (like Aristotelian universals). Perdurantism: perdurantism can perceive objects as four-dimensional, extended both in time and space. Endurantism: endurantism can also assume that objects have temporal parts, e.g. a football game.
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Stalnaker I 135f
Vague Identity/Stalnaker: e.g. there are two fish restaurants Bookbinder's - only one can be identical with the original one. Endurantism: problem: B0: (the original one) is then an ambiguous name. Perdurantism: here perdurantism is unique.
Stalnaker I 81
Def Individualbegriff/Stalnaker: The individual concept is a function of possible worlds on individuals.
Stalnaker I 91
Def weak supervenience/Stalnaker: Weak supervenience is found within a possible world. Strong Supervenience/Stalnaker: strong supervenience is found within one or in several. Global Supervenience/Stalnaker: Global supervenience is when any two possible worlds that are B indistinguishable are also A indistinguishable. Global Supervenience: Global supervenience must be improved. So it is not even sufficient for weak supervenience.
I 124
Def Identity/Possible World Relative/Stalnaker: identity is always the binary relation whose extension in any possible world w is the set of pairs such that d is in the domain of w.
I 267
Def minimal subject/terminology/Stalnaker: a minimal subject is Ex anything that is a representative, something that receives, stores, or transmits information.
I 192
Def kontingent a priori/zwei-dimensionale Semantik/Stalnaker: Kontingent a priori ist eine Aussage mit einer kontingenten sekundären Intension, aber einer notwendigen primären.
Def notwendig a posteriori: umgekehrt: Notwendig a posteriori sind notwendige sekundäre Intensionen, kontingente primäre. Pointe: Keine Proposition ist selbst kontingent a priori oder notwendig a posteriori. Es gibt nur verschiedene Weisen, in denen notwendige und kontingente Propositionen mit Aussagen assoziiert sind.
Def Charakter/Kaplan: Charakter ist gleich Bedeutung. Er ist die Funktion von möglichen (Gebrauchs-) Kontexten auf Referenten.
I 212
Def Local Descriptivism/Lewis/Stalnaker: local descriptivism is simply a way of explaining one part of speech by another. ((s) According to Lewis and Stalnaker, this is the only way).
I 9
Def Property/Stalnaker:
(a) thin/sparse definition: a trait is a way individuals can be grouped.
b) richer definition/Stalnaker: (more robust): A trait is something upon which (in relation to which) individuals are grouped.
I 103
Def Fundamental property/Stalnaker: a fundamental property must provide for distinctions between individuals that could not otherwise be explained.
I 154f
Def essential identity/Stalnaker: all things x and y that are identical are essentially identical, i.e. identical in all possible worlds in which the thing exists.
I 34
Def Implication/Proposition/Stalnaker: (here): A implies B gdw. a set consisting of A and a contradiction of B is inconsistent.
I 50
Def doxastically accessible/Lewis: Doxastically accessible means being compatible with other beliefs and knowledge.
I 16
Def C-Intension/Jackson: A C-intension is c(x) expressed by u in x.
Def A-intension/Jackson: The A-intension is determined by the propositional thought alone.
Def necessary a posteriori statement: A necessary a posteriori statement is a statement with a necessary C-intension and a contingent A-intension.
Def contingent a priori statement: a contingent a priori statement is conversely one with a necessary A-intension and a contingent C-intension.
I 205
Def two-dimensional propositional intents/Stalnaker: a two-dimensional propositional intents is a function with two arguments, a centered world and a possible world. Its value is a truth value (WW).
Def A-intentions/primary intension/primary sentence intension/stalnaker: an A-intention is a function with one argument, one centered world. Its value is a truth value.
Def C-Intension/Secondary Intension/Secondary Sentence Intension/Stalnaker: A C-Intension is a function with an argument and a possible world. Its value is a truth value.
I 15
Def Metaphysics/Stalnaker: metaphysics concerns the distinctions that must be made between possibilities.
I 43
Def Liberal Platonism/LP/Terminology/Stalnaker: (early thesis): If practice is legitimate, (inferences, etc.) then we are really making assertions and semantics really tells us what the assertions say.
I 61f
Def Proposition/Stalnaker: a proposition is no more than a subregion, or subset of possible worlds.
Def assertion/Stalnaker: asserting a proposition is nothing more than locating the real world in that subset.
Def true-relative-to-x: To say a proposition is true relative to a world x is to say that the world x is in the subset (of possible worlds) that the proposition constitutes.
Def true simpliciter: "True simpliciter" means to say that the real world is in this subset (of possible worlds constituting the proposition).
