Meaning of transworld | Babel Free

Definitions

Spanning possible worlds.

Examples

“But it doesn't really come⟳ to the same thing, because the usual notion of a criterion of transworld identity demands that we give⟳ purely qualitative necessary and sufficient conditions for someone being Nixon.”

“If we start⟳ with transworld individuals which exist⟳ in several possible worlds, we can, as Lewis pointed out, construct world-specific individuals as ordered pairs, of which the first member is a transworld individual and the second member is a possible world ...”

“Although this approach⟳ avoids the problem of specifying transworld identity relations, it provokes another objection concerning the essential properties that must be attributed to any individual in a world in which the individual exists.”

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