POSSIBILISM OR ACTUALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S VIEWPOINTS

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SADEGHI VAHIDEH; HAJIEBRAHIM REZA

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Journal: METAFIZIKA Year:2018 | Volume:1 | Issue:4 Page(s): 108-136

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POSSIBILISM OR ACTUALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S VIEWPOINTS

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SADEGHI VAHIDEH | HAJIEBRAHIM REZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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ACTUALISM

POSSIBILISM

NECESSITISM

CONTINGENTISM

WILLIAMSON

Abstract

Have you ever asked yourself would you exist if your parents never met each other? These questions which are rooted in notions such as “ Possible Worlds” and “ Possible objects” and raised from modal notions such as “ Possibility” and “ Necessity” are the locus of controversy among a lot of philosophers. Two main approaches discussed in this thesis are “ ACTUALISM” and “ POSSIBILISM” . Possibilists consider all possible worlds as realized and existing affairs and believe that the possible worlds exist without being existed actually, while actualists consider the current world as the actual and realized world and the content of the actual world, and it is only the actual world which is concrete. At the first glance it seems that the ACTUALISM approach is not compatible with modal logic and formulas such as Barkan, but on the other hand POSSIBILISM is not a popular and acceptable theory. Zalta and Linsky are among new actualists who by talking about non-concrete objects which can become concrete with a special possibility, took a successful step to solve this problem. WILLIAMSON can be known as the follower of Zalta and Linsky path, who by utilizing unbounded quantifiers and descriptive possibility proved the essential existence. In his book titled modal logic as metaphysic, he tries to present a support for metaphysic opinions by the aid of modal logic. His approach in this book directs the quarrel path toward another direction, and by discussing about two approaches of “ NECESSITISM” and “ Contingentis” and finally defending his approach and modal logic-based reasoning responds to the question we proposed at first. .The full text of this article is the Persian language, please for the view full text, refer to Persian Please click here to view the full text of this article.

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SADEGHI, VAHIDEH, & HAJIEBRAHIM, REZA. (2018). POSSIBILISM OR ACTUALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S VIEWPOINTS. METAFIZIKA, 1(4 ), 108-136. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/266681/en

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SADEGHI VAHIDEH, HAJIEBRAHIM REZA. POSSIBILISM OR ACTUALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S VIEWPOINTS. METAFIZIKA[Internet]. 2018;1(4 ):108-136. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/266681/en

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VAHIDEH SADEGHI, and REZA HAJIEBRAHIM, “POSSIBILISM OR ACTUALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON'S VIEWPOINTS,” METAFIZIKA, vol. 1, no. 4 , pp. 108–136, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/266681/en

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