A Critique of Schellenberg’s New Logical Argument from Evil by Mahboobeh Pakdel, Amirabbas Alizamani

“…Plantinga’s search for the third proposition begins with the idea of a possible world. Then, he concludes:(3) God would create a world of free creatures that choose to do evil.In other words, for any world God might create free creatures, it is not within God’s power to bring it about that those free creatures never choose evil.L. …”
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LITERATURA, TEOLOGÍA Y MUNDOS POSIBLES: UNA MANERA DE LEER A JORGE LUIS BORGES by Juan Manuel Campos Benítez

“…The notion of possible worlds’ can contribute to a better understanding of literature, particularly fiction. …”
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The transience of possibility by Reina Hayaki

“…The standard view of metaphysical necessity is that it is truth in all possible worlds, and therefore that the correct modal logic for metaphysical necessity is S5, in models of which all worlds are accessible from each other. …”
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A Combinatorial Solution to Causal Compatibility by Fraser Thomas C.

“…This paper introduces the possible worlds framework as a method for deciding causal compatibility in this difficult setting. …”
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Incarnation, Divine Timelessness, and Modality by Emily Paul

“…Modal variation need not, therefore, require temporality: it only requires variation across (static) possible worlds. I draw out the problems with Leftow’s modal claim under the heads of Ersatzism and Genuine Modal Realism about possible worlds, respectively. …”
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What is Absolute Necessity? by Bob Hale

“…Absolute necessity might be defined as truth at absolutely all possible worlds without restriction. But we should be able to explain it without invoking possible worlds. …”
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Sophisticated Linguistic Modal Theories by José Tomás Alvarado Marambio

“…This work presents and discusses three recent proposals for the explanation of possible worlds by means of linguistic constructions. …”
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Kant and the Problem of Optimism: The Origin of the Debate by Krouglov, A. N.

“…This article presents Crusius’s arguments against the theory that this is the best of all possible worlds and in favour of the theory that there are several good worlds. …”
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Conditions of Possibility of Knowledge and Spaces of Logic Possibility by Angélica María Rodríguez Ortiz

“…For a long time, Classical logic has been in charge of validating the judgments of fact that constitute science; however, in the last few decades, logic modal studies have gained particular strength, with which it is intended to examine, among others, the epistemic statements and beliefs of cognizants from the use of modal operators, among them, those that set the boundaries of the theory of possible worlds. This article aims to show the role of beliefs, language and logic in the conditions of possibility of knowledge, based on a review of the relevance of the theory of possible worlds and the spaces of logical possibility in the Construction and analysis of the scientific discourse.…”
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Counterfactuals and accessibility by Kodaj, D

“…The accessibility relation between possible worlds can be defined in the metalanguage of counterfactual semantics. …”

On Emily Paul on Brian Leftow by Matthew James Collier

“…Paul examines her argument on two possible worlds theories: theistic ersatzism and (what I call) Lewisian theism. …”
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Ceteris paribus logic in counterfactual reasoning by Patrick Girard, Marcus Anthony Triplett

“…Such events may skew a given similarity order in favour of those possible worlds which exhibit them. By updating the relational structure of a model according to a ceteris paribus clause one forces out, in a natural manner, those possible worlds which do not satisfy the requirements of the clause. …”
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The Inevitability of Sin by Kevin Timpe

“…This paper uses David Lewis’s work on counterfactuals and possible worlds to give an account of how the inevitability of sin can be understood. …”
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Kwantowe nielokalności z perspektywy logika by Michał Heller

“…Bigaj, Non-Locality and Possible Worlds. A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt — Paris — Ebikon — Lancaster — New Brunswick, 2006, s. 294.…”
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Efficient Open World Reasoning for Planning by Tamara Babaian, James G. Schmolze

“…State update is performed without considering the set of all possible worlds corresponding to the knowledge state. …”
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Another artworld is possible by Filippo Focosi

“…There’s no doubt, Leibniz was wrong: this is not the best of all possible worlds. In the past, men found consolation in artworks which, with their beauty, profundity and inventiveness, made it possible to imaginatively escape from, or discover a deeper meaning in, the real world. …”
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Towards a theology of human praxis: A proposal from liberation theologies in a neoliberal world by Jose F. Castrillón Restrepo

“…From the inductive orientation of Latin American liberation theology and black liberation theology, this research proposes some theological elements to discuss the feasibility of a human praxis that orients the creation of possible worlds.…”
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Kant’s Modal Asymmetry between Truth-Telling and Lying Revisited by José F. Fontanari

“…However, if the lies are not too harmful, our game evolutionary model predicts a world in which the individuals are both credulous and mildly untruthful. These two possible worlds are separated by a discontinuous phase transition in the limit of infinite population size.…”
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Toward an Axiomatization of Strongly Possible Functional Dependencies by Munqath Alattar, Attila Sali

“…Using strongly possible worlds, strongly possible keys and strongly possible functional dependencies (spFDs) were introduced in Refs. 5 and 1 [M. …”
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Treating heterogeneity and uncertainty in data integration: study on Brazilian healthcare databases. by Marcos Barreto, Spiros Denaxas

“…There exist 2^records possible worlds with the probability distribution being the product of record probabilities. …”
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