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Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds [PDF]

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023
In this paper, translation is examined from the perspective of the semantics of possible worlds. The consequences of this viewpoint are explored, particularly in relation to the metaphor of traveling through possible and impossible worlds in translation ...
Valery Z. Demyankov
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Impossible Worlds [PDF]

Noûs, 2013
Impossible worlds are representations of impossible things and impossible happenings. They earn their keep in a semantic or metaphysical theory if they do the right theoretical work for us. As it happens, a worlds‐based account provides the best philosophical story about semantic content, knowledge and belief states, cognitive significance and ...
Mark Jago
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Impossible Worlds [PDF]

, 2019
Abstract The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as ...
Francesco Berto, Mark Jago
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Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay

Crítica
I address objections to impossible worlds (IWs) by Timothy Williamson and Kit Fine. Two species of IWs Mark Jago and I had in our Impossible Worlds book were FDE worlds (worlds used in the semantics of the nonclassical logic of First Degree Entailment ...
Francesco Berto
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Mundos impossíveis e ilusão estética / Impossible worlds and aesthetic illusion

Revista Contracampo, 2014
Este ensaio aborda o problema da ilusão estética através da análise de uma categoria de textos que impedem essa experiência: textos que criam mundos impossíveis. Quatro tipos de impossibilidades são descritos: impossibilidade ontológica (i.e. metalepse e
Marie-Laure Ryan
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Impossible worlds originating from dung: from Italo Calvino’s Bersabea to Galileo Galilei’s Medusa

Between, 2019
L’immagine di Bersabea (Le città invisibili) oscilla attorno alla contrapposizione fra i materiali più pregiati e quelli più vili. Se Calvino si confronta con una tradizione di pensiero ‘antagonista’, l’evoluzione concettuale della coppia antonimica ...
Andrea Cannas
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Counterparts and Counterpossibles: Impossibility without Impossible Worlds

The Journal of Philosophy, 2022
Standard accounts of counterfactuals with metaphysically impossible antecedents take them to by trivially true. But recent work shows that nontrivial countermetaphysicals are frequently appealed to in scientific modeling and are indispensable for a number of metaphysical projects.
Michael Townsen Hicks
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Impossible worlds and partial belief [PDF]

Synthese, 2017
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Edward Elliott
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Sensitivity, safety, and impossible worlds [PDF]

Philosophical Studies, 2020
AbstractModal knowledge accounts that are based on standards possible-worlds semantics face well-known problems when it comes to knowledge of necessities. Beliefs in necessities are trivially sensitive and safe and, therefore, trivially constitute knowledge according to these accounts.
Guido Melchior
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Sahlqvist theory for impossible worlds [PDF]

Journal of Logic and Computation, 2016
We extend unified correspondence theory to Kripke frames with impossible worlds and their associated regular modal logics. These are logics the modal connectives of which are not required to be normal: only the weaker properties of additivity and multiplicativity are required.
Alessandra Palmigiano, Sumit Sourabh, Zhiguang Zhao   +2 more
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