Transworld

Quick meaning: Transworld is an adjective meaning (philosophy) Spanning possible worlds.

Meaning

(philosophy) Spanning possible worlds.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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 .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transsubjective, out-of-universe, cosmothetic, in-world, pregiven, hypermetaphysical.

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