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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 ...
Jago, Mark
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Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay [PDF]

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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Logically Impossible Worlds [PDF]

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. 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]

, 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 properties and propositions, among many other applications.
Nolan, Daniel, Daniel Nolan
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Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1997
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Nolan, Daniel, Nolan, Daniel Patrick, Daniel Nolan   +2 more
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Impossible worlds and partial belief [PDF]

Synthese, 2017
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Elliott, Edward, Elliott, E, Edward Elliott   +2 more
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Worlds, Possible and Impossible [PDF]

Modal phenomena in general, and modal claims in particular, present a problem for contemporary philosophers. The truth conditions of modal claims differ from those of nonemodal claims.
Vacek, Martin
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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 [PDF]

, 2022
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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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds [PDF]

, 2021
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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