According to many actualist conceptions of modality, talk about possible worlds should be reduced to talk about world stories. Intuitively, a world story is a com- plete description of how things could be. In this paper, I will claim that the world story approach not only suffers from the well-known, expressive problem of repre- senting the thesis of the possible existence of non-actual objects, but it has troubles in representing, in an actualistically acceptable way, the apparently more tractable thesis of the possible non-existence of actual objects. To solve this problem, I will propose a refinement of the approach by the introduction of a novel notion of max- imality, local maximality.

World stories and maximality

Morato, Vittorio
2017

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According to many actualist conceptions of modality, talk about possible worlds should be reduced to talk about world stories. Intuitively, a world story is a com- plete description of how things could be. In this paper, I will claim that the world story approach not only suffers from the well-known, expressive problem of repre- senting the thesis of the possible existence of non-actual objects, but it has troubles in representing, in an actualistically acceptable way, the apparently more tractable thesis of the possible non-existence of actual objects. To solve this problem, I will propose a refinement of the approach by the introduction of a novel notion of max- imality, local maximality.
2017
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