(June 3, 2024 at 5:57 pm)Angrboda Wrote: IMHO, the semantics of possible worlds is inadequately defined. If a god is defined as necessary, then he exists in all possible worlds, by definition. What do you call the possible worlds in which he doesn't exist? It's an interesting subject, as any encounter with the subject of counterfactuals is, but it's not sufficiently well-developed to be anything more than a can of worms.
Roughly the same as me then.
I am definitely not convinced it is any more than sheer imagination that the world could have actually been different. Sure we can think of a different world, we may even be able to model that world with physics to a limited extent, but I don’t currently see why that means it could actually have turned out that way. i might be getting hung up on two different meanings of “could” and “possible” here
Regarding whether it is sufficiently well developed or not, I will have to dig into in the future. I happily embrace sheer ignorance at the moment
