模态虚构论及其发展现状

Modal fictionalism and it’s develepment

模态语义学关于可能世界的量化导致了对可能世界的本体论承诺,然而绝大多数人并不相信“可能世界”是存在的。罗森通过引入“故事前缀”的策略谋求既可以在语义学中量化可能世界但又不在本体论上承诺可能世界,并将这一策略称为模态虚构论。模态虚构论避免了模态实在论的本体论代价,但却引发了许多激烈的讨论,关于某些重要论题的讨论至今仍然在持续并不断推陈出新。

The quantification of modal semantics on possible worlds leads to an ontological commitment to possible worlds,yet the vast majority don’t believe that“possible worlds”exists.Rosen’s strategy of introducing“story prefix”seeks to both quantify possible worlds in semantics but without commits possible worlds on the ontology.Rosen called this strategy“Modal Fictionalism”.Modal fictionalism avoids the ontological costs of modal realism,but it has caused a lot of intense discussions,the discussions about some important issues are still be continued and renewed.