The Ontology of Impossible Worlds
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چکیده
The best arguments for possible worlds. as states of affairs furnish us with equally good arguments for impossible worlds of the same sort. I argue for a theory of impossible worlds on which the impossible worlds correspond to maximal inconsistent classes of propositions. Three objections are rejected. In the final part of the paper, I present a menu of impossible worlds and explore some of their interesting formal properties.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997