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Possible world

A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy, with modal realists such as David Lewis…

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Possible world

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Triples143
Avg. degree1.97
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related to Further reading · 37
Possible world → Actual, Affairs, Armstrong, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Chapters, Cornell University Press, Divers, Herrick, ISBN, Ithaca, Leibniz, Lewis, Logic, London, Loux, Metaphysics, New York, On
related to history · 24
Possible world → Al-Ghazali, Aliya, Antonio Rubio, Aristotelis Stagiritae, Arthur Schopenhauer, Averroes, Coelo, Commentarii, David Lewis, Din, Fakhr, God, Gottfried Leibniz, Incoherence, John Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Matalib, Philosophers, Razi, René Descartes
related to Metaphysics · 18
Possible world → Another, David Lewis, English, Finally, For, He, Lewis, Lewis's, Modal, On Lewis's, Quine, Saul Kripke, Since, Some, Stalnaker, Stalnaker's, The, This
related to External links · 15
Possible world → Alexander Pruss, Bradley, Dowden, Impossible Worlds, Impossible-Worlds, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, OCLC, Philosophy, PhilosophyFieser, Possible, Possible Objects, Possible Worlds, Stanford Encyclopedia
related to Explicating necessity and possibility · 14
Possible world → Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Aristotle, At, Contingent, False, Impossible, In, Melissa, Necessarily, Possible, This, Thus, Toby, True
see also · 10
Possible world → Alternate, God's, Hypothetical, Impossible, Philosophical, Pretending, Simplified, Term, Theological, Version
related to Logic · 9
Possible world → Contemporary, Diamond, For, Formulas, Montague, Possible, Richard Montague's, The, To
related to Argument from ways · 6
Possible world → An, European, It, Possible, So, The Black Death
related to Other uses · 5
Possible world → God's, Many, Possible, These, Zombie Argument
is a · 1
Possible world → complete and consistent way the world is or could have been

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possible worlds world modal philosophy true propositions could exist logic ways actual example semantics isbn used formal argument lewis philosophers

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Possible worldis acomplete and consistent way the world is or could have been0.90text
David Lewis arguing that there are literally existing alternate realitiesinstance ofwith modal realists0.80text
and others such as Robert Stalnaker arguing that alternate realities do not existinstance ofwith modal realists0.80text
maximally consistent sets of propositions without rendering theories of modality circularinstance ofentities0.80text
Saul Kripke treat them as purely formalinstance ofwhile others0.80text
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysPossible0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysAn0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysIt0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysThe Black Death0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysEuropean0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Argument from waysSo0.60section
Possible worldrelated to Explicating necessity and possibilityAt0.60section

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