transworld

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trans- +‎ world

Adjective[edit]

transworld

  1. (philosophy) Spanning possible worlds.
    • 1972, Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity[1], page 46:
      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.
    • 1979, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Theories of Actuality”, in The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality[2]:
      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 ...
    • 1988, William Bechtel, Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science[3]:
      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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