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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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Logically Impossible Worlds

The Australasian Journal of Logic, 2018
What does it mean for the laws of logic to fail? My task in this paper is to answer this question. I use the resources that Routley/Sylvan developed with his collaborators for the semantics of relevant logics to explain a world where the laws of logic fail.
Koji Tanaka
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Impossible Worlds and the Logic of Imagination [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2017
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Francesco Berto
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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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WHAT MAKES A QUANTUM PHYSICS BELIEF BELIEVABLE? MANY‐WORLDS AMONG SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST [PDF]

Zygon, 2023
An extraordinary, if circumscribed, positive shift has occurred since the mid‐twentieth century in the perceived status of Hugh Everett III's 1956 theory of the universal wave function of quantum mechanics, now widely called the Many‐Worlds ...
Shaun C. Henson
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Impossible worlds and logical omniscience: an impossibility result

Synthese, 2011
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Jens Christian Bjerring
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Sustainability and impossible worlds

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
This 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
Menga Filippo, Vanolo Alberto
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Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1997
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Daniel Nolan
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Causal Counterfactuals and Impossible Worlds [PDF]

, 2017
A standing challenge in the theory of counterfactuals is to solve the ‘deviation problem’. Consider ordinary counterfactuals involving an antecedent concerning a difference from the actual course of events at a particular time, and a consequent concerning, at least in part, what happens at a later time.
Daniel Nolan
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A Theory of Impossible Worlds ( Metalepsis )

Castilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2015
The purpose of this work is threefold: First, to develop a textual model of literary genres based on generic categories, natural and elemental, capable of being applied to all literary texts, existing or imaginable; second, to attempt to explain the relation between literary genres and fictionality, to show that there are fictional and non-fictional ...
Alfonso Martín Jiménez
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