Counterpart theory: metaphysical modal normativism by another name

968 Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic

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Counterpart Semantics for Quantified Modal Logic

In this paper we deal with the semantics for quantified modal logic, QML in short, and their philosophical relevance. In the first part we introduce Kripke semantics for the first-order modal language L= with identity, then we consider some unsatisfactory features of this account from an actualist point of view. In addition, we show that the calculus QE .K + BF on free logic, with the Barcan fo...

Relative-sameness counterpart Theory

Just as set theory can be divorced from Ernst Zermelo’s original axiomatization of it, counterpart theory can be divorced from the eight postulates that were originally stipulated by David Lewis (1968, p. 114) to constitute it. These were postulates governing some of the properties and relations holding among possible worlds and their inhabitants. In particular, counterpart theory can be divorc...

Propositions and counterpart theory

Canonical Counterpart Theory

I n a recent article in Analysis , Graeme Hunter and William Seager ( 1981 ) attempt to rescue counterpart theory (CT) from some objections of Hazen 1979 . They see these objections as arising from ‘uncritical use of the translation scheme originally proposed by Lewis’, and intend to meet them by refraining from use of that scheme. But they do not offer a new scheme; they say ‘...it is no more ...