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Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy , with modal realists such as David Lewis arguing that they are literally existing alternate realities, and others ...
The ness-ity-hood principle is used mainly by English-speaking philosophers to generate convenient, concise names for universals or properties. [9] According to the Ness-Ity-Hood Principle, a name for any universal may be formed by taking the name of the predicate and adding the suffix "ness", "ity", or "hood". For example, the universal that ...
The second statement, on the other hand, expresses a causal or metaphysical relation: It says that the world was set up so that the consequent would have been made true if the antecedent were true. One will accept that second statement to the extent that one thinks the world was set up in that way.
Eliot used the term to describe the manner by which the nature and substance of English poetry changed "between the time of Donne or Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the time of Tennyson and Browning." In this essay, Eliot attempts to define the metaphysical poet and in doing so to determine the metaphysical poet's era as well as his discernible ...
A famous haiku by Yosa Buson entitled, The Piercing Chill I Feel illustrates the use of objective correlative within poetry: [5] The piercing chill I feel: my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom, under my heel... In the Clint Eastwood movie Jersey Boys, songwriter Bob Gaudio of The 4 Seasons is asked who the girl is in his song Cry For Me. He ...