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Philosophy Compass, 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 ...
Daniel Nolan
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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
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Impossible worlds and partial belief [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2017 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Edward Elliott
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Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay [PDF]
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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Impossible worlds and logical omniscience: an impossibility result
SynthÈse, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Jens Christian Bjerring
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Sustainability and impossible worlds
Environment and Planning E, Nature and SpaceThis paper mobilises the idea of impossible worlds to conceptualise and explore inconsistent and illogical visions and ways of living sustainably. Specifically, the paper focuses on an understanding of sustainability based on classic Kantian universalistic ethics (suppose everyone did the same) and relative feelings of responsibility and guilt for the ...
Filippo Menga, Alberto Vanolo
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Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds
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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Unnatural Temporalities and Projected Places in Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2
ELOPE, 2021 Sam Shepard’s Cowboys #2 (1967) belongs to his first period of play writing. In this phase, his works exhibit experimental, remote, impossible narrative/fictional worlds that are overwhelmingly abstract, exhibiting “abrupt shifts of focus and tone ...
Omid Amani +2 more
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Исследования языка и современное гуманитарное знание, 2021 In the present paper we make an attempt to define the phenomenon of autofiction as opposed to the well-established notion of autobiography, that over the last number of years has sparked off considerable debate about factual and fictional in life-writing,
Maria A. Yalovenko
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Modal realism: Yet another hybrid version [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of modality by means of the existence of concrete impossible worlds. In particular, I pursue a strategy according to which logical impossibility is analyzed as logical inaccessibility.
Vacek Martin
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