Definition of "w" []

• The 23rd letter of the modern English alphabet. (noun)
• Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter w. (noun)
• The 23rd in a series. (noun)
• Something shaped like the letter W. (noun)
• Weight (abbreviation)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Thus, the sentence ˜I am a philosopher™ is false with respect to c and w, but true with respect to c and w*."
• "But what is the intuitive connection between w and w*?"
• "To provide the required counterexample, just consider a model in which A holds at w, B doesn't hold at w, and A doesn't hold at w*."