God and Possible worlds
This article investigates the problems which arise when the concept of possible worlds is applied to modal and existential judgments about God. In presentday logic, philosophy and linguistics, modal statements are conventionally understood as coordinating the situation described or relationships bet...
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| Series: | Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия |
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| author | Alexey Chernyak Andrey Veretennikov |
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| description | This article investigates the problems which arise when the concept of possible worlds is applied to modal and existential judgments about God. In presentday logic, philosophy and linguistics, modal statements are conventionally understood as coordinating the situation described or relationships between situations with possible worlds. Existential statements are in this case seen as coordinating what is being stated by default with reality. But a judgment about God does not always imply a link between His existence or His possession of certain properties and some concrete world or even the whole array of possible worlds. Having studied the problem, the author of the paper has come to the conclusion that semantics of possible worlds is compatible with preferable (from the point of view of theism) readings of diffi cult cases of the type in question if one of the two requirements is met, namely if these statements are not assigned the sense of the truth or they are understood as hidden metaphors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-29fcb624de8c4eae8be3c53850019e2b2022-12-22T03:05:13ZrusSt. Tikhon's Orthodox UniversityВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия1991-640X2409-46922018-12-0177772944http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturI201877.29-446God and Possible worldsAlexey Chernyak0Andrey Veretennikov1People's Friendship University Of Russia 6 Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, 117198 Russian FederationRussian State University for the Humanities, 125993, Moscow, Miusskaya sq. 6, Moscow, GSP-3, 125993, RussiaThis article investigates the problems which arise when the concept of possible worlds is applied to modal and existential judgments about God. In presentday logic, philosophy and linguistics, modal statements are conventionally understood as coordinating the situation described or relationships between situations with possible worlds. Existential statements are in this case seen as coordinating what is being stated by default with reality. But a judgment about God does not always imply a link between His existence or His possession of certain properties and some concrete world or even the whole array of possible worlds. Having studied the problem, the author of the paper has come to the conclusion that semantics of possible worlds is compatible with preferable (from the point of view of theism) readings of diffi cult cases of the type in question if one of the two requirements is met, namely if these statements are not assigned the sense of the truth or they are understood as hidden metaphors.http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/6531semantics God possible world theism modality existence necessity conditions of being true meaning metaphor creation |
| spellingShingle | Alexey Chernyak Andrey Veretennikov God and Possible worlds Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия semantics God possible world theism modality existence necessity conditions of being true meaning metaphor creation |
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| topic | semantics God possible world theism modality existence necessity conditions of being true meaning metaphor creation |
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