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Logically Impossible Worlds [PDF]
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. I claim that the non-normal worlds that Routley/Sylvan (with his collaborators) introduced
Tanaka, Koji
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Impossibility and impossible worlds [PDF]
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 properties and propositions, among many other applications.
Nolan, Daniel, Daniel Nolan
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Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach
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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds [PDF]
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 ...
Nolan, Daniel
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CD reviews of The Shell Game, David Toop & Lawrence English (Room 40; Impossible Worlds, Kevin Daniel Cahill (False Walls); Halcyon Days, Michael Byron (Cold Blue Music);Tiny Thunder, Nicholas Chase (Cold Blue Music); The Basketweave Elegies, Peter ...
Loydell, Rupert
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A Theory of Impossible Worlds (Metalepsis)
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 ...
Alfonso Martín-Jiménez
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Degrowth but, Where? Degrowth For Whom? [PDF]
It is almost impossible to disagree with a proposal seeking to slow things down to minimize harm to the planet. However, the question is where. The manifesto in The Case for Degrowth acknowledges the challenge of asking distinct populations to lower ...
Deepak Lamba-Nieves
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D’un monde à l’autre ou les rhétoriques de l’exemple dans les manuels de microéconomie
In France, for more than 15 years, many economics students have urged their professors to leave “imaginary worlds” behind. This paper takes this plea as an invitation to interrogate ourselves about the world(s) we tell our students about. In this context,
Sophie Jallais
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The paper defends the so-called extended modal realism, a theory according to which there are concrete impossible worlds. Firstly, modal realism is presented.
Martin Vacek
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Figures et mondes impossibles en jeu vidéo
The author studies impossible figures and worlds in video games. To this end, they draw on scholarship dealing with impossibility in fiction, in particular certain works on possible worlds theory, and draw inspiration from approaches relating to the ...
Jesse Aidyn
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