transworld

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ world.

Adjective

transworld

1. (philosophy) Spanning possible worlds.
   • 1972, Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity‎^[1], page 46:

     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.

   • 1979, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Theories of Actuality”, in The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality‎^[2]:

     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 ...

   • 1988, William Bechtel, Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science‎^[3]:

     Although this approach avoids the problem of specifying transworld identity relations, it provokes another objection concerning the essential properties that must be attributed to any individual in a world in which the individual exists.

Further reading

• “transworld”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.