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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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, 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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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 and partial belief [PDF]
Synthese, 2017 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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 +2 more
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Impossibility and impossible worlds [PDF]
The Routledge Handbook of Modality, 2020 Possible worlds have found many applications in contemporary philosophy: from theories of possibility and necessity, to accounts of conditionals, to theories of mental and linguistic content, to understanding supervenience relationships, to theories of ...
Daniel Nolan
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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.
M. Hicks
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Should We Embrace Impossible Worlds Due to the Flaws of Normal Modal Logic? [PDF]
Logica UniversalisSome philosophers advance the claim that the phenomena of logical omniscience and of the indiscernibility of metaphysical statements, which arise in (certain) interpretations of normal modal logic, provide strong reasons in favour of impossible world ...
Til Eyinck
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Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay
CríticaI 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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