Le droit à l’image : le Cinéma Novo brésilien et l’apparaître by Gustavo Chataignier

“…One believes, finally, that cinema sensible forms are able to establish another possible world.…”
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR by Sebastian Bender

“…In a nutshell, the argument is that the only possible PSR violation Leibniz allows for is God’s creation of a suboptimal world; there is no Leibnizian possible world, though, which intrinsically violates the PSR. …”
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Conditionals and actuality by Williamson, T

“…It does not assume the framework of possible world semantics, characterizing "actually" instead by the type of logically valid formulas to which it gives rise. …”

Estimating the cardinality of conjunctive queries over RDF data using graph summarisation by Stefanoni, G, Motik, B, Kostylev, E

“…We interpret a summary of an RDF graph using a possible world semantics and formalise the estimation problem as computing the expected cardinality over all RDF graphs represented by the summary, and we present a closed-form formula for computing the expectation of arbitrary queries. …”

Differential game with slow pursuers on the edge graph of a simplex by Azamov, Abdulla, Ibaydullaev, Tolanbay, Ibragimov, Gafurjan

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David Hume'da Kötülük Sorunu by Mustafa Çevik

“…We can find three affirmative answers for this question from the speakers who practice the Dialogues: Demea, applies to reconcile this contradiction (if it is) by 'the best possible world’ theory. Cleanthes, wants to solve this problem by supposing the ‘Author of nature to be finitely perfect; though for exceeding mankind’. …”
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Critique of a necessitist argument by Timothy Williamson by Konrad Utz

“…Williamson’s argument collapses once the ambiguity concerning the scope of the modal operator is removed: CBF does apply to $x ◊(Ø$y x=y)’, ‘something possibly has the property of being identical to something nonexistent’; however, this is not the contingentist thesis, but is inconsistent; whereas ‘$x, ◊Ø$y: x=y’ does formulate the contingentist thesis: something is identical to something which in some possible world does not exist, but CBF does not apply. …”
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Modalne argumenty teistyczne (Modal Theistic Arguments) by Graham Oppy

“…The author claims that all such arguments are questionbegging – before proving the existence of God (defined as a being which exists in every possible world) theistic modalist must assume it when choosing his account of logical space (no matter which modal theory it relies on: Lewis’ modal realism, ersatz modal realism, combinatorialism or fictionalism). …”
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The Study and Analysis of Semantics through the Lens of Linguistics Based On a Philosophical Approach by Mohammad Zohrabi

“…Meaning is concerned with what a language expresses about the world in which we live or any imaginary or possible world. The study and analysis of meaning and its different angles is called semantics. …”
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Secularism as a key piece in the alterglobalization advancing from the gender perspective by Lorena García Saiz

“…This study analyzes a critical gender perspective the various editions of the Forum, and at the same time, highlights the achievements that women – thanks to the actions promoted by the postcolonial Feminisms and the work of the feminist dialogues (DF) – have gained throughout this event world through the promotion of a secular environment, so that gender issues are not cross element, but «hair», key aspect to create a more just and egalitarian world another possible world.…”
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Challenges of Implementation of e learning in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) in African schools: A Critical Review by Samson Gunga

“…While mathematical proof is established deductively and hence conclusive and not amenable to confutation in a logically possible world, scientific truth is established inductively on probable yet utilitarian grounds in the actual world. …”
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Peter Märkli: Things Around Us by Vincenzo Moschetti

“…The various passages are expressions of events that enter the circuit of a possible world where representation marks inheritance, explorations, and the presence of the author, Märkli, who, working in a state of boredom, founds new geographies based on the things that exist all around us.…”
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Un altro (pezzo di) mondo è possibile. Secessione e concentrazione by Mirko Alagna

“…I will argue that this aspiration now presents itself in non-universalistic forms: it is no longer a matter of building another possible world, but several pieces of the world. This implies a partial depoliticization of the dream of other possible worlds: politics is no longer considered - and can no longer be considered - the principal or indispensable tool for changing the world. …”
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Fiksionaliteit in die Dramawêreld by M. Mouton

“…He uses a term from logical semantics, viz. the “theory of possible worlds” and adjusts this to enable him to speak of a dramatic possible world. …”
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Vagueness and uncertainty by Bacon, A, Andrew Bacon

“…Could you remain uncertain in a vague proposition, even if you knew exactly which possible world obtained? Should your degrees of belief be probabilistically coherent? …”

The Status of Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions: Fuzzy Intervals and Hard Identifications by Kristina Šekrst

“…The representations dealing with the work world are the socially shared ones, while the possible-world representations, dealing with most of the game world, are player-specific and tied to unique language use.Keywords: self-involving interactive fiction, cognitive theory of pretense, game world, pretend play, video game representations…”
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Triple Helix and European Union (EU) Funding: The case of Latin America, especially Mexico and the Seventh European Framework Program by Jürgen Haberleithner

“…The potential partnerships between Europe and Latin America (in addition to other possible world regions, such as, for example, Pacific Asia) will create an initial project draft within the scope of the conference.…”
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„Fundacja” i „Honor Harrington”. Jak fantastyka przegoniła rzeczywistość by Jakub Z. Lichański

“…One of the reasons given is the fact that Earth is no longer ‘the best possible world,’ and that humans are to blame for that. …”
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From a phenomenological experience of the armed conflict towards a significant experience of peace in the post agreement by Uva Falla-Ramírez, Juan Guillermo Velásquez-Arias

“…In order to do this, we use analysis from the perspective of phenomenology of Alfred Schütz and Paul Ricoeur, in which imagination converts the construction of peace as a possible world. The intention is to perform a phenomenological analysis describing the meanings given to the conflict from which the reality is interpreted and which drive behaviour. …”
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Uncertainty About Evidence by Adam Bjorndahl, Aybüke Özgün

“…Rather than representing an evidential state as a fixed subset of the state space, our models allow the set of possible worlds that a piece of evidence corresponds to to vary from one possible world to another, and therefore itself be the subject of uncertainty. …”
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