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From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds

Das Questões, 2021
Is it possible to simultaneously escape the regime of authoritarian overdetermination distinctive of all modern totalitarianisms and the regime of anarchic underdetermination characteristic, in turn, of all hypermodern nihilisms? To what extent is Nietzsche’s philosophy responsible for having transformed such conceptual polarity in a frozen dichotomy ...
A. Segovia , Carlos, Gevorkyan, Sofya
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Impossibility and Impossible Worlds [PDF]

, 2020
Possible worlds have found many applications in contemporary philosophy: from theories of possibility and necessity, to accounts of conditionals, to theories of mental and linguistic content, to understanding supervenience relationships, to theories of ...
Nolan, Daniel
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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, D Lewis, D Lewis, D Makinson, D Olin, D Pritchard, D Pritchard, D Pritchard, D Pritchard, E Sosa, J Barwise, J Copeland, J Hintikka, J Hintikka, J Melia, K Popper, M Cresswell, M Cresswell, M Shaffer, M Shaffer, M Shaffer, M Shaffer, Michael J. Shaffer, P Forrester, R Adams, R Carnap, R Montague, R Stalnaker, R Stalnaker, R Stalnaker, S Kripke, T Williamson   +31 more
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Unawareness with “possible” possible worlds [PDF]

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2014
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Leibniz, Acosmism, and Incompossibility [PDF]

, 2016
Leibniz claims that God acts in the best possible way, and that this includes creating exactly one world. But worlds are aggregates, and aggregates have a low degree of reality or metaphysical perfection, perhaps none at all.
C Wilson, D Rutherford, G Gale, GEM Anscombe, GHR Parkinson, J Messina, J Palkoska, JA Cover, JK McDonough, L Carlin, L Strickland, M Griffin, O Koistinen, O Nachtomy, O Nachtomy, P Lodge, RM Adams, RY Chappell, S Kagan, S Levey, S Newlands, S Newlands, YY Melamed   +22 more
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The modal account of luck revisited [PDF]

, 2016
According to the canonical formulation of the modal account of luck [e.g. Pritchard (2005)], an event is lucky just when that event occurs in the actual world but not in a wide class of the nearest possible worlds where the relevant conditions for that ...
Carter, J. Adam, Peterson, Martin
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Possible Worlds in the Precipice: Why Leibniz Met Spinoza? [PDF]

, 2017
The main objective of the paper is to give initial answers to three important questions. Why did Leibniz visit Spinoza? Why did his preparation for this meeting include a modification of the ontological proof of God?
Vidinsky, Vassil
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Possibilities Without Possible Worlds/Histories [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2010
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Do possible worlds compromise God’s beauty? A reply to Mark Ian Thomas Robson [PDF]

, 2012
In a recent article Mark Ian Thomas Robson argues that there is a clear contradiction between the view that possible worlds are a part of God's nature and the theologically pivotal, but philosophically neglected, claim that God is perfectly beautiful. In
Divers, Garcia, Johnston, JON ROBSON, Leibniz, Lewis, Plantinga, Plantinga, Sherry, Sorensen, van Inwagen   +10 more
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Possible Worlds Versioning

Mathematics in Computer Science, 2008
We present a history of the application of the possible-world semantics of intensional logic to the development of versioned structures, ranging from simple software conguration to the networking of distributed context-aware applications permeated by multiple shared contexts.
Mancilla, Blanca, Plaice, John
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