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transworld

transworld adjective: spanning possible worlds.

Adjective

transworld

  1. Spanning possible worlds.
    • 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.1972, Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, page 46
    • 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 ...1979, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Theories of Actuality”, in The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality

Origin of transworld

From trans- + world.

Questions about transworld

What does transworld mean?
Transworld means spanning possible worlds.
What part of speech is transworld?
Transworld is an adjective.

Words near transworld in the dictionary

  1. transwikis
  2. transwoman
  3. transwomanhood
  4. transwomen
  5. transwomyn
  6. transworld
  7. transxiphoid
  8. transxiphoidal
  9. transxylosylation
  10. transxylosylations
  11. transxyphoid

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