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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Possible Worlds"”.
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Identity across possible worlds
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy, 1975
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Alternative realities: Counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory
… fiction is a genre that creates fictional worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of the actual world. I argue that Possible Worlds Theory is a suitable methodology with which to analyse this type of fiction because it is an ontologically centred theory that can be used to divide …
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Divine Deliberation: Possible-Worlds Modality and the Divine Will-To-Create
… turn towards modal metaphysics. Philosophy’s possible worlds modality has become the basis on which theologians regularly discuss both theology proper and such sub-disciplines as apologetics or the doctrine of providence. A great gap, therefore, exists in explicit Christian theological …
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Possible worlds explorer: Combining declarative programming with user-friendly Jupyter Notebooks
… developed a problem solving framework called ""Possible Worlds Exploration"" which is based on combining the two programming paradigms to enable new exploration and problem solving capabilities for a wide audience of users. The primary component of this framework is the Possible Worlds Explorer …
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Actualism, singular propositions, and possible worlds : essays in metaphysics of modality
… that some propositions are true with respect to possible worlds in which they do not exist. An example is the negation of the proposition that Socrates is wise. This proposition is true with respect to possible worlds in which Socrates does not exist, but it does not exist in those worlds. In …
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A Kantian critique of David Lewis's modal realism
… critique. Modal realism is the theory that possible worlds are the sorts of things our actual world is. Lewis's argument for modal realism in ""Possible Worlds"" contains what in Kantian terms are synthetic apriori propositions. Kant's answer to the question of how synthetic apriori modal …
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… of the adoptee situated in reality and the possible worlds they create within themselves through mental activity. Adoptees exist in both of these worlds simultaneously. Using primarily narrative theory, I argue that Lifton’s Ghost Kingdoms are a narrative framework adoptees use to compose …
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Using the visual denotations of image captions for semantic inference
… of a denotation of an utterance as the set of possible worlds in which the utterance is true from the logic-based approach, and instantiates possible worlds as images. In this dissertation, we also show how visual denotations can be created for descriptions of everyday entities and events. …
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Models of propositional content
… primary bearers of modal properties; since it is possible to know what someone said, propositions would be the things that we are properly said to know. Propositions are of deep philosophical interest mostly due to the fact that each of these four theoretical roles involves a perennial …
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Truth in (Impossible) Fictions
… truth in fiction that better handles truth in impossible fictions than the standard Lewisean account. Lewis' solution makes use of possible worlds to capture truths unstated but implied by the fiction. In order to improve upon this account I categorize a number of impossible fictions by the …
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The Kingdom Falls
… monomyth and Lubomir Dolezel's theory of possible worlds on the work, among other things.
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Deceptive robots
… agents to reason with nested beliefs using possible worlds semantics; consistency maintenance is employed to allow agents to revise their beliefs when an inconsistency occurs. The advantages over prior systems are that belief revision occurs without user interaction and that beliefs are …
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Against Modalities: On the Presumed Coherence and Alleged Indispensability of Some Modal Notions
… terms are supposed to refer to in non-actual possible worlds. I reject several ideas for solving the problem. The upshot is a worry about the coherence of modal talk concerning kinds. Waiving this worry for the sake of argument, in Part II the target is the use of modal talk in the sciences. I …
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Essays in microeconomics
… to tautological beliefs. It is shown that impossible possible worlds (excess uncertainty) result from a failure to believe all tautologies, while possible impossible worlds (excess certainty) result from belief in 'tautologies' which may in fact be false. A propositional model is employed …
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Coarse Modality
One of the early successes of the application of possible worlds semantics to the analysis of natural language is Kratzer’s account of modality. A large part of the subsequent literature on modals has sought to expand the crosslinguistic coverage of that framework, and, in so doing, many new …
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Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
… definition of the other as the expression of a possible world has introduced a novel ontological organization into philosophy. It makes possible the conception of a singular being which may be expressed by a potentially infinite number of possible worlds. This, in turn, has lead Deleuze to …
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A conditional model of abduction
… a semantics for explanation in terms of sets of possible worlds, which are simple modal structures also suitable for other forms of defeasible reasoning. The result of this thesis is an object-level account of abduction based on the revision of the epistemic state of a program or agent. Abductive …
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The time of possibilities : truth and felicity of subjunctive conditionals
… conditional statements within the framework of possible world semantics. I argue that in order to understand what the meaning of a modal sentence is we need to look closely at the internal composition of accessibility relations. Accessibility relations are shown to be complex relations involving …
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Balancing Multiple Worlds: The Multiverse and the Fractured Asian American Experience in <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em> (2022)
… seen through the lens of Leibniz’s “Best of All Possible Worlds,” and Taoism. Within this framework, this thesis underscores the significance of the aesthetics and iconography that present the synergy between the multiverse experiences and the Asian American in-betweenness: the fluctuations …
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Text world theory : A critical exposition and development in relation to absurd prose fiction.
… poetics. This inheritance includes the fields of possible worlds semantics and narratology, artificial intelligence research and cognitive psychology. Essential modifications, revisions and crucial adjustments are made to Werth's approach in order to produce a refined model of Text World Theory. …
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