From worlds to possibilities

IL Humberstone - Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1981 - JSTOR
… that the actual world, at least, is a fully dete possibility: its … of replacing worlds by l specific
possibilities, since the notion of … such possibility as 'a Presumably the view that the actual world

Possible worlds

D Lewis - The possible and the actual: Readings in the …, 1979 - books.google.com
… results of empirical investigation to conclusions about what possibilities there are . It is
only to say that when we find it hard to locate our actual world among the possibilities that we …

[BOOK][B] Another world is possible if...

S George - 2004 - books.google.com
… To this popular slogan, Susan George adds a cautionary ‘If’and suggests how we can
indeed reach that other world. Whether you are a seasoned campaigner and confirmed ‘world-…

[HTML][HTML] Possible worlds

C Menzel - 2013 - plato.stanford.edu
… Rather, what makes the actual world actual is simply that it is our world, the world that we
happen to inhabit. Other worlds and their inhabitants exist just as robustly as we do, and in …

and Possibility

S Yablo - Epistemic modality, 2011 - books.google.com
… For that kind of package expands the sphere of possibility to include every world, and we
know by (p2) that permission to y should bring in only q -worlds. So, any reasonable package …

Ability and possibility

W Schwarz - Philosophers Imprint, 2020 - research.ed.ac.uk
… In section 5 I will sketch a few possibilities for how the non-accidentality restriction may be
compositionally derived. Finally, in section 6, I will show that the proposed account defuses …

[BOOK][B] Possibility

M Jubien - 2009 - books.google.com
… But I will offer an analysis of possibility and necessity that makes no appeal to possible worlds.
In … The ultimate analysis of possibility and necessity, as I will suggest, does depend on two …

[BOOK][B] Futurability: The age of impotence and the horizon of possibility

F Berardi - 2017 - books.google.com
… the world (that is, the immanence of possibilities). Possibility is not one, it is always plural:
the possibilities inscribed in the present composition of the world are not infinite, but many. The …

To Live in a World of Possibilities

C Ghasarian - Transatlantic Parallaxes: Toward Reciprocal …, 2015 - books.google.com
… In fact the word possibility has multiple meanings, and it is more appropriate to speak of
possibilities, the variant people evoke most often. the idea that the world is full of possibilities is …

Earth, world, text: On the (im) possibility of ecopoiesis

CE Rigby - New Literary History, 2004 - muse.jhu.edu
This article is concerned with a key question of ecological aesthetics: that is, the potential of
art speak (of) the earth. Following Jonathan Bate’s discussion of Heidegger’s late essays in …