transworld
/tɹænswˈɝld/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 ..."
- "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."