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Degrowth but, Where? The Case for Degrowth [PDF]
ARQ, 2022 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 ...
Giorgos Kallis +3 more
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Thought as a quasi-possibility
Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2021 Modal logic determines a lot in modern metaphysics and ontology, which delve deeper and deeper into the realm of the possible, not limited to the analysis of reality.
D. V. Ankin
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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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Dialetheism and the Impossibility of the World [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2014 This paper first offers a standard modal extension of dialetheic logics that respect the normal semantics for negation and conjunction, in an attempt to adequately model absolutism, the thesis that there are true contradictions at metaphysically possible worlds.
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Weibliche Adelsherrschaft und Regentinnenschaft in der Dragon Age-Reihe
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023 BioWare’s Dragon Age series has often been cited as an example for meieval fantasy games being inclusive of women despite their medieval worlds. This article, in contrast, argues that the kingdom of Ferelden constructed by the game is based on the idea ...
Aurelia Brandenburg
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, 1999 The theory of possible worlds has permeated analytic philosophy in recent decades, and its best versions have a consequence which has gone largely unnoticed: in addition to the panoply of possible worlds, there are a great many impossible worlds.
Vander Laan, David
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Distinguishing semantic components of attitude verbs via the German modifier genau
Linguistica Brunensia, 2020 This paper presents novel data from German: certain attitude verbs such as wissen ('know') as well as all verbs of perception are compatible with the modifier genau ('exactly') which is usually associated with expressing precision.
Valerie Wurm
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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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Are Impossible Worlds Trivial? [PDF]
, 2013 Theories of content are at the centre of philosophical semantics. The most successful general theory of content takes contents to be sets of possible worlds.
Jago, Mark
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Ceteris paribus logic in counterfactual reasoning [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016 The semantics for counterfactuals due to David Lewis has been challenged on the basis of unlikely, or impossible, events. Such events may skew a given similarity order in favour of those possible worlds which exhibit them.
Patrick Girard, Marcus Anthony Triplett
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