La concepción ramificacionista de la modalidad
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Pérez Otero, Manuel
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1997
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Contextos ISSN 0212-6192 Nº 29-30, 1997, pags. 135-152
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The branching conception of modality is a view suggested by Kripke and explicitly propounded by Forbes. It is based on the following thesis: if two possible worlds have some object in common then they have some initial temporal segment of their courses of history in common, each one branches from the other. This view offers a promising approach to questions of transworld identity: relations of transworld diversity or identity that would be grounded in transtemporal intraworld identity relations. I illustrate and work out this conception and defend it from an objection. Furthermore, some particular claims by Forbes and Gibbard about the strategy of combining the branching view with plausible ideas about the necessity of origin are criticized and shown to be erroneous. In addition to the necessity of origin, the branching conception has in the notion of causal independence its natural complement.