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18. Okt. 2013 · Accordingly, Part 1 of this article will provide an overview of the role of possible worlds in the development of modal logic. Part 2 explores three prominent philosophical approaches to the nature of possible worlds. [ 1]
- Further Problems for Concretism
It follows from E that, for every proposition p, there is at...
- Further Problems for Combinatorialism
The totality of recombinations of these 'atoms' yields a set...
- The Intensionality of Abstractionist Possible World Semantics
The Intensionality of Abstractionist Possible World...
- Problems with Abstractionism
The proof of the left-to-right direction, however — which...
- Rigid Designators
A rigid designator designates the same object in all...
- Further Problems for Concretism
A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been. Possible worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic.
Learn about the concept of a possible world, a total way the universe might have been, contrasted with the actual world. Explore how philosophers have formalized and used this idea in modal logic, ontology, and theodicy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Als mögliche Welt bezeichnet man eine die Logik achtende Vorstellung, wie die Realität beschaffen sein könnte – also eine logisch konsistente Gesamtheit von Vorstellungen der möglichen Sachverhalte. Eine Möglichkeitsaussage wird dann insgesamt als wahr bezeichnet, wenn sie in einer solchen Welt („in mindestens einer ...
29. Feb. 2000 · Modal logic is, strictly speaking, the study of the deductive behavior of the expressions ‘it is necessary that’ and ‘it is possible that’. However, the term ‘modal logic’ may be used more broadly for a family of related systems.
18. Jan. 2019 · The two key concepts in possible worlds semantics are possible worlds and accessibility spheres (or relations). Intuitively, a possible world w is simply a way the world could be or could have been. Formally, they are treated as primitive points in the set of all possible worlds W.
A possible world is a complete way things might be, alternative to the actual world. Learn about the philosophical and logical aspects of possible worlds, from Leibniz to modal logic and possibilism.
