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D’un monde à l’autre ou les rhétoriques de l’exemple dans les manuels de microéconomie
Revue de la Régulation, 2018 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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Figures et mondes impossibles en jeu vidéo
Sciences du Jeu, 2023 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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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 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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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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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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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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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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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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De la science‑fiction à la science‑fictionnalisation : la prise de la SF sur le monde réel
ReS Futurae, 2023 This article explores the different kinds of traction science fiction might have on the real and, in particular, attempts to define a kind of experimental writing practice (when this is broadly construed) that is less about the future than an ...
Simon O’Sullivan
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