Is everything a world?
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This paper discusses “inclusionism” in the context of David Lewis’s modal realism (and in the context of parasitic accounts of modality such as John Divers’s agnosticism about possible worlds). This is the doctrine that everything is a world. I argue that this doctrine would be beneficial to Divers-style agnosticism; that it suggests a reconfiguration of the concept of actuality in modal realism; and finally that it suffers from an as-yet unsolved difficulty, the problem of the unmarried husbands. This problem also shows that Stephen Yablo’s analysis of “intrinsic” is inadequate. 1 Isolationism and inclusionism In his paper “Intrinsicness”, Stephen Yablo describes a revised version of David Lewis’s modal realism, incorporating the doctrine he calls inclusionism: that “Some worlds contain others as proper parts” (Yablo 1999, p. 483). Which worlds might those be? Yablo’s inclusionist says that every world that properly contains anything has a world as a proper part; that is, every part of a world is a world, every mereological fusion of worlds is a world, you are a world, I am a world, for all intents and purposes, everything is a world.1 This view has several benefits. 1) Yablo is particularly interested in its surprising benefit of providing an analysis of “intrinsic”. According to Yablo, G is extrinsic iff “whether a thing is or Thanks to Ross Cameron, Daniel Nolan, John Divers, Kit Fine, Agustı́n Rayo, Steve Yablo, and to participants in the Arché modality seminar, University of St Andrews.
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