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Merely Possible Possible Worlds

2012
This chapter first sketches a minimal theory of propositions—one that ascribes to propositions just the structure that anyone who is willing to talk of propositions at all must ascribe to them. It extends the minimal theory by adding some assumptions about the modal properties of propositions and possibilities, and then sketches a general model of ...
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The Possibilities for Possibility Theory

1982
Possibility theory is discussed as an extension of probability theory arising from the need to express subjective information quantitatively in linguistic terms, but without the restrictions of probability numbers. The concept of fuzzy sets is introduced as the basis of possibility theory and the broad scope of applications is mentioned.
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‘Possible For’ and ‘Possible That’

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1981
In this century, much of the discussion of the free will problem has centered around the conditional analysis of ‘can’. Following G.E. Moore, most compatibilists have based their position on the supposition that to say a person could have acted otherwise is simply to say that he would have acted otherwise, if he had chosen (or willed) to.
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Possible Worlds, Possible Minds

2020
Abstract Across the world and across history, adults have developed widely divergent beliefs about people and their minds and actions, capacities and limits. Yet, these spring from, and depart from, early childhood theories, which are remarkably similar worldwide.
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Possible Worlds and Possible Individuals

2023
Abstract While this book endorses an ontological commitment to propositions, properties, and relations, it rejects a commitment to the existence of merely possible worlds or merely possible individuals. The aim of this chapter is to reconcile the rejection of these ontological commitments with a model theory for modal logic that seems to
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“Possible Meaning”

In her 1938–1942 Reading Notebook, Marianne Moore was taken with a distinction made by W. H. Auden between a poem’s “immediate meaning and possible meaning.” By considering the critical context in which Moore was writing, this paper argues that Moore understood this distinction to mark the boundary between poetry and theology where an anagogic mode of ...
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Fuzzy sets as a basis for a theory of possibility

, 1999
L. Zadeh
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

, 2017
H. Jonsson
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Problèmes de lecture : mondes possibles, textes possibles

Repères, 1986
Marcoin Francis. Problèmes de lecture : mondes possibles, textes possibles. In: Repères pour la rénovation de l'enseignement du français, n°70, 1986. Problèmes langagiers, sous la direction de Gilbert Ducancel. pp. 59-68.
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Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Nature Reviews Materials, 2021
, Liping Wen, Lei Jiang
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