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Possible Worlds Semantics [PDF]
, 2015 One approach to specifying the meaning of pieces of languages is to treat those meanings as constructions out of possible worlds and possible objects. This technique is useful both in logic and in providing the semantics of natural languages. After introducing possible worlds semantics, this chapter will outline some of the applications that have ...
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, 2013 Impossible worlds are representations of impossible things and impossible happenings. They earn their keep in a semantic or metaphysical theory if they do the right theoretical work for us.
Jago, Mark
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Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2018 This article investigates the problems which arise when the concept of possible worlds is applied to modal and existential judgments about God.
Alexey Chernyak, Andrey Veretennikov
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Continuations in possible-world semantics
Theoretical Computer Science, 1991 The paper treats the semantics of jumps and block expressions in ALGOL- like languages. The author uses the generalization of conventional semantic domains to functor from the category of ``possible worlds'' to a category of semantic domains. The use of continuations in this generalized framework is discussed.
Robert D. Tennent, J. K. Tobin
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Subset models for justification logic [PDF]
, 2019 We introduce a new semantics for justification logic based on subset relations. Instead of using the established and more symbolic interpretation of justifications, we model justifications as sets of possible worlds.
Lehmann, Eveline, Studer, Thomas
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Modelling Deep Indeterminacy [PDF]
, 2021 This paper constructs a model of metaphysical indeterminacy that can accommodate a kind of ‘deep’ worldly indeterminacy that arguably arises in quantum mechanics via the Kochen-Specker theorem, and that is incompatible with prominent theories of ...
Darby, George, Pickup, Martin
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ProblemosModalism, a philosophical theory positing that modal concepts such as possibly and necessarily are primitive and unanalysable, stands in contrast to possible worlds semantics, which analyses modal notions through a quantificational framework.
Monika Morkūnaitė
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, 2017 This paper presents and advocates an approach to the semantics of opinion statements, including matters of personal taste and moral claims. In this framework, 'outlook-based semantics', the circumstances of evaluation are not composed of a possible world
Coppock, Elizabeth
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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]
, 2022 This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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About Truth and Possible Worlds: Pavel Tichý and His Logical and Philosophical Research [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2021 This paper is devoted to the brilliant Czech logician and philosopher of language Pavel Tichý (1936–1994) who, after emigrating to New Zealand in 1970 and spending half his life there as a political refugee, committed suicide shortly before returning to ...
Anna Maria Perissutti
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