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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2020 Modality concerns what might or must be the case. Modal expressions are typically intensional. An expression α is intensional just in case the substitution of extensionally equivalent expressions under the scope of a need not preserve truth. Modal realism is the view that modal propositions are grounded in the existence of concrete, non-actual ...
Ruth Ronen
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Unawareness with “possible” possible worlds [PDF]
Mathematical Social Sciences, 2014 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
O. Walker
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ART PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE WORLDS
International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2012 This paper explores the possibilities of arts practice in early childhood education. Building on her master’s thesis, the author presents both a doing – her experimentation with arts practice in two early childhood centres – and an argument: that art may
Vanessa Clark
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Comparative Study of Physics Parallel Worlds and Possible Worlds of David Lewis [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2021 At first glance, it seems that we can find similarities between the possible worlds proposed by Lewis and the theory of parallel worlds in physics. Both of these theories point to the possibility of the existence of worlds other than the one we live in ...
maryam parvizi +1 more
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Stress tests for public service resilience: introducing the possible-worlds thinking
Public Management Review, 2022 Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and reverting to normal life and services requires resilience. This qualitative case study aims to help public sector managers understand service resilience and its accompanying breaking points by proposing a scenario ...
Tomi Rajala, Harri Jalonen
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A Possible Worlds Model of Belief for State-Space Narrative Planning
Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, 2021 What characters believe, how they act based on those beliefs,and how their beliefs are updated is an essential element of many stories. State-space narrative planning algorithms treat their search spaces like a set of temporally possible worlds.
A. Shirvani +2 more
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2021 Narrative Language and Possible Worlds in Postmodern Fiction. A Borderline Study of Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time. The present paper is a study of more traditional hermeneutics combined with a tinge of possible world modality, with the purpose of ...
Adriana Diana URIAN
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Perceived similarity of imagined possible worlds affects judgments of counterfactual plausibility.
Cognition, 2021 People frequently entertain counterfactual thoughts, or mental simulations about alternative ways the world could have been. But the perceived plausibility of those counterfactual thoughts varies widely.
Felipe De Brigard +2 more
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Absolutul – „ultima frontieră” a cunoașterii [PDF]
Eon, 2023 In the volume of essays “The Absolute - from disintegration to reconstruction”, the theorist and thinker Mircea Braga starts from the considerations of the philosopher George Steiner about the “disintegration" of the old existential platform of humanity,
Liliana DANCIU
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