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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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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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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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The possibility of onion worlds: rebutting an argument for structural universals [PDF]
, 2007 The possibility of gunk has been used to argue against mereological nihilism. This paper explores two responses on the part of the microphysical mereological nihilist: (1) the contingency defence, which maintains that nihilism is true of the actual world;
Williams, J.R.G.
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Paradoxes of causal loops in spacetime [PDF]
, 2013 There is, among some scientists and philosophers, the idea that any theory that would allow the time travel would introduce causal issues. These types of temporal paradoxes can be avoided by the Novikov self-consistency principle or by a variation in the
Du, Chunyun +3 more
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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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Safety, the Preface Paradox and Possible Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2019 This paper contains an argument to the effect that possible worlds semantics renders semantic knowledge impossible, no matter what ontological interpretation is given to possible worlds.
CI Lewis +31 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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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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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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