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POSSIBLE WORLDS FOR FICTION. A RECONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH, WITH A PRACTICAL OUTLOOK INTO IAN MCEWAN’S ATONEMENT, ON CHESIL BEACH AND THE CHILD IN TIME

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
Possible Worlds for Fiction. A Reconstructive Approach, With a Practical Outlook into Ian McEwan’s Atonement, On Chesil Beach and The Child in Time. The present paper aims at presenting how the possible world framework can function for fictional worlds.
Adriana Diana URIAN
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Philosophical Issues from Kripke’s ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016
In ‘Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic’, Kripke articulates his project in the discourse of “possible worlds”. There has been much philosophical discussion of whether endorsement of the Kripke semantics brings ontological commitment to possible ...
John Divers
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Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2023
In this paper, translation is examined from the perspective of the semantics of possible worlds. The consequences of this viewpoint are explored, particularly in relation to the metaphor of traveling through possible and impossible worlds in translation ...
Valery Z. Demyankov
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Deontic Logic, Ideal Worlds, and Perfect Worlds [PDF]

, 2013
Las interpretaciones semánticas más fructíferas que se han ofrecido de los diversos sistemas axiomáticos de lógica deóntica se valen de la semántica de mundos posibles. Sin embargo, existen serios cuestionamientos contra dicha reconstrucción semántica en
Rodríguez, Jorge Luis
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Possible worlds and resources: the semantics of BI

Theoretical Computer Science, 2004
AbstractThe logic of bunched implications, BI, is a substructural system which freely combines an additive (intuitionistic) and a multiplicative (linear) implication via bunches (contexts with two combining operations, one which admits Weakening and Contraction and one which does not). BI may be seen to arise from two main perspectives. On the one hand,
Pym, D, O'Hearn, P, Yang, H
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Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012
Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent's attitudinal possibilities using "multi-
Dilip Ninan
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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to)
Rui Marques
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The ways of forming possible worlds of literary text characters: A cognitive linguistic aspect (a study of the novel “Treasure Island” by R.L. Stevenson”)

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов
The article aims to expose various ways along which possible worlds of the characters’ images in the novel “Treasure Island” by R.L. Stevenson are formed. The methodological toolset leveraged in the paper combines the contemporary techniques of cognitive
Dmytro Pavkin
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Everettian quantum mechanics without branching time [PDF]

, 2011
In this paper I assess the prospects for combining contemporary Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) with branching-time semantics in the tradition of Kripke, Prior, Thomason and Belnap.
Wilson, Alastair
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Fantastické fikční světy J. M. Merina (nejen) prizmatem teorie N. H. Traillové

Bohemica Litteraria, 2019
The study focuses on the theory of fiction worlds and is primarily based on the theory of the fantastic and possible worlds semantics of Nancy H. Traill. Traill's classification of modes is being applied to an analysis of J. M.
Helena Zbudilová
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