EXISTENCE REQUIREMENT, WORLD-INDEXED PROPERTIES, AND CONTINGENT APRIORI
Keywords:
Existence requirement, World-indexed properties , Contingent apriori, Necessity, @-transformAbstract
The article is dedicated to the argument against the Existence
Requirement provided by Takashi Yagisawa. We argue that the core of Yagisawa`s
argument – the Strong Iterability – cannot be inferred from the idea of contingent
apriori (Kripke), and is incompatible with the idea of @-transform (Plantinga).
Thus, these ideas, contrary to Yagisawa, cannot serve as a methodological
basis of the Strong Iterability. We also argue that the Strong Iterability is
incompatible with the Constituent Principle. Finally, we show that the concept
of world-indexed properties (the argument of Yagisawa relies on the idea of
world-indexed properties) is inconsistent, and even if the defender of Strong
Iterability can resist this objection, the Strong Iterability must be given up.
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