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Mundos impossíveis e ilusão estética / Impossible worlds and aesthetic illusion

open access: yesRevista 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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Atlas da Região de Carajás: uma introdução

open access: yesConfins, 2023
The proposal for an Atlas of the Carajás Region is a product of the research project “Production of subsidies for the formulation of public policies for the Carajás Region”.
Eudes Leopoldo   +4 more
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Illusions of gunk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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;
Armstrong D. M.   +15 more
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Against Vacuism

open access: yesStudia Semiotyczne, 2022
This paper discusses the question of whether all counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents (counterpossibles) are vacuously true. The orthodox view of counterpossibles (vacuism) answers that question in the affirmative.
Samuel Dickson
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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F, 2020
According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
doaj   +1 more source

Alphas Storytelling: Mapping Childrenswear Possible Worlds, Defining Seasonal Brands Territories

open access: yesZoneModa Journal, 2018
Born from 2010 and raised by Millennials, Alphas represent today the youngest generational market segment. Raising as “screenagers” in mostly only-child family environments, technology is shaping their present and future consumer culture.
Simona Ironico
doaj   +1 more source

Geen identiteit zonder oriëntatie in de tijd. Over de noodzaak van chronologie

open access: yesBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2009
No Identity without Temporality. Why We Need Chronologies Recently, the Dutch National History Museum launched a concept of five theme-worlds that would serve as the outline of Dutch history.
M. Grever
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Impossible worlds originating from dung: from Italo Calvino’s Bersabea to Galileo Galilei’s Medusa

open access: yesBetween, 2019
L’immagine di Bersabea (Le città invisibili) oscilla attorno alla contrapposizione fra i materiali più pregiati e quelli più vili. Se Calvino si confronta con una tradizione di pensiero ‘antagonista’, l’evoluzione concettuale della coppia antonimica ...
Andrea Cannas
doaj   +1 more source

Counterfactuals of Ontological Dependence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A great deal has been written about 'would' counterfactuals of causal dependence. Comparatively little has been said regarding 'would' counterfactuals of ontological dependence.
Baron, Sam
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The theorem on ontological randomness of possible worlds: in defence of relativism towards possible worlds ontology

open access: yesCхід, 2014
The article deals with the ontology of the possible worlds in possible world semantics. Possible worlds are considered from instrumentalist point of view (according to which we have no need in regulating of the relation of possible world to actual world
Mstislav Kazakov
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