Talk:Counterpart theory

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Please state examples of bad prose and not just add a banner. Maybe then I can write changes. I spend a lot of time writing this piece and as far as I know there is yet nothing more complete about counterpart theory on the web. English is not my mothertongue so exemples will help me improve my prose.

--RickardV 11:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, the article's far too technical. Wikipedia is an general encyclopedia, not a reference manual, and at the moment I don't think someone who's not an expert in the subject already would understand this. I have a degree in philosophy & two years of a physics degree, so am presumably the "target" audience for this, but in honesty having read the article, I really don't understand what it's about — iridescent (talk to me!) 14:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Not anything??? --RickardV 14:38, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree that this is far too technical. I do not have a degree in philosophy (not quite, anyway), but I am pretty well versed. I suggest removing all of the formal logic and beginning instead with a simple discussion of near alternate worlds and their counterparts therein. Does that make sense? I will try to understand better what you are saying on this page before going forward, but I might try to start doing some rewrites if that is OK. -- Wylfing (talk) 15:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree. The logic is atmost first-order predicate logic, for the explanation of counterpart theory, and there is not much on it in the rest of the world wide web yet. The proof of the necessity of identity is important in itself and therefore the article is linked to the issues of modal logic. I hope someday in the future to also look through the article and fix some of it. But go ahead. --RickardV (talk) 11:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I found this article extremely helpful as a reference. Please don't delete the formal bits - they are essential. If you edited every formal thing out of every logic article you came across there'd be nothing left!! --NoizHed (talk) 19:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)