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18 de oct. de 2013 · Possible Worlds and Modal Logic. Although ‘possible world’ has been part of the philosophical lexicon at least since Leibniz, the notion became firmly entrenched in contemporary philosophy with the development of possible world semantics for the languages of propositional and first-order modal logic.
Possible worlds are one of the foundational concepts in modal and intensional logics. Formulas in these logics are used to represent statements about what might be true, what should be true, what one believes to be true and so forth.
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.
Possible Worlds es una película dirigida por Robert Lepage con Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon .... Año: 2000. Título original: Possible Worlds. Sinopsis: Debido a un extraño fenómeno, un hombre vive dos vidas paralelas, en distintos mundos, y al mismo tiempo.
29 de feb. de 2000 · We will illustrate possible worlds semantics for a logic of necessity containing the symbols \({\sim}, \rightarrow\), and \(\Box\). Then we will explain how the same strategy may be adapted to other logics in the modal family.
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.
23 de jul. de 2009 · Lewis held that the best theory of modality posited concrete possible worlds. A proposition is possible if and only if it is true at one of these worlds. Lewis defended this view in his most significant book, On the Plurality of Worlds.
