Zdigitalizowana (betonowa) dżungla. Miasto w grach wideo. Naśladownictwo by Paweł Świątek

“…In the conclusion, the author points to the potential usefulness of the possible worlds’ theory which, to some extent, bonds the highlighted levels of virtual reality, the creation of the depicted world and the categories of interactivity and mimicry.…”
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Naturel, rationnel, utile : penser l’optimisation avec quelques utopies des Lumières by Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

“…Since progress is that by what the optimum is realized in the course of history, and utopia a so-called prefiguration of this realisation and an enunciation of the means of this actualization, it is evidently through the problem of its necessary, contingent or impossible character, of the role played by human agency, that the question of the best of possible worlds is thought over. This article ultimately shows that the utopian discourse of the Enlightenment is not as optimistic as it is often thought to be.…”
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La fabbrica oscura: Poiesi delle forme weird in The Red Tower di Thomas Ligotti by Emilio Gianotti

“…The essay uses notions of Possible Worlds Theory and Fiction Theory toexplore Ligotti’s use of this literary technique, highlighting its effects and its relationship with Ligotti’s nihilistic theory. …”
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The Multiverse and Divine Creation by Michael Almeida

“…God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. …”
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Control, Attitudes de se and Immunity to Error Through Misidentification by Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto

“…We also show that the type of criticism we raise against Higginbotham’s account applies likewise to analyses based on the use of acquaintance relations and centered possible worlds. Finally, following recent ideas in cognitive science, we propose an amendment to Higginbotham’s account based on the idea that the thematic-role “Experiencer” corresponds to a function mapping events into “minimal selves”, in the sense of Shaun Gallagher.…”
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De re attitude reports about disjunctive attitudes by Ekaterina V. Vostrikova, Petr S. Kusliy

“…This existential quantifi­cation has a wider scope than the universal quantification over possible worlds that is general­ly associated with the semantics of attitude dicta. …”
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Peirce sobre analiticidade by José Renato Salatiel

“…The analysis of Peirce’s writings on mathematic suggests a notion of a posteriori and necessary analytical truths, that is, propositions that express one belief justified in experience, but whose generalization is valid for all the possible worlds. This was a new idea the time that Peirce formulated it, in 19th Century, and it contrasts with semantic-analytical tradition from Frege and was contested by Quine in 1950’s. …”
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Racionalidad y Justicia Ambiental: La Elusiva Injusticia de la Vida by Enrique Leff

“…Environmental justice seeks to establish a criterion of fairness for the construction of other possible worlds based on the principles that sustain the disjunctive category of environmental rationality: an ontology of the diversity of life, a politics of difference, and ethics of otherness.…”
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Bivalence and subjunctive conditionals by Williamson, T

“…To make this distinction is to side with Lewis against Stalnaker in a dispute about possible worlds semantics for such conditionals, and reasons are given for doing so. 2. …”

Un intérêt « sans mélange de peine » : Clarisse, Julie et l’optimum du roman épistolaire pathétique by Marilina Gianico

“…In his famous comparison between God’s creation and the action of a novelist, Leibniz reminds us that the best of all possible worlds (real as well as fictional) is not a world released from evil, but a universe finding a balance between variety and coherence. …”
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The Problem of Evil in DC Universe Animated Movies, 2007–2016 by El-Khoury, Toufic

“…We will discuss the problem of evil as a natural narrative topic in light of comics’ mythological and religious roots and with a particular study case: DC Comics Multiverse as an illustration of Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds” argument.…”
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Epistemic Perspectives and Communicative Acts by Anton Benz

“…We represent epistemic relations in a possible worlds framework, and take an interactional approach that considers speech acts as part of joint communicative acts.…”
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And Now for Something Completely Different: Meinong’s Approach to Modality by Peter Simons

“…The third treats possible worlds as the source of truth for modal propositions (Kripke, Lewis et al.) …”
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Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds by Dilip Ninan

“…I show how the problem can be avoided if we represent an agent's attitudinal possibilities using "multi-centered worlds", possible worlds with multiple distinguished individuals, each of which represents an individual with whom the agent is acquainted. …”
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ROLEPLAYING GAME AND LEARNING, TOWARD A GENERAL TAXONOMY by Antonio Roda

“…Subsequently, we should work with an initial taxonomic approach with the next criteria: basic modality, types and parts of manuals, possible worlds in connection with the real world, and genre. …”
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For a vertical curriculum of History and Geography by Beatrice Borghi, Rolando Dondarini

“…The article proposes a vertical curriculum of History and Geography, effectively implemented in the school contexts of the Emilia-Romagna Region and Republic of San Marino, distinguished by well-founded core, goals for the development of skills and repertoire of learning objectives, considering the discipline made of results and contacts and recognizing that the reality in which we live is only one of the possible worlds, both with respect to past, both compared to other contemporary and future societies.…”
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TRAJECTORYS OF DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTS OF REALITY by S. V. Gerasimov

“…The article can be regarded as a preliminary consideration of a possible attempt to create a universal semantics of possible worlds, realities.…”
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Coalgebraic Semantics for Probabilistic Logic Programming by Tao Gu, Fabio Zanasi

“…Second, by embedding F into another type G, as cofree G-coalgebra we obtain a `possible worlds' interpretation of programs, from which one may recover the usual distribution semantics of probabilistic logic programming. …”
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Many−Valued Disjunctive Logic Programs with Probabilistic Semantics by Lukasiewicz, T

“…Interestingly, these many-valued disjunctive logic programs have both a probabilistic semantics in probabilities over possible worlds and a truth-functional semantics. We then define minimal, perfect, and stable models and show that they have the same properties like their classical counterparts. …”

A Note on the Complexity of the Satisfiability Problem for Graded Modal Logics by Kazakov, Y, Pratt−Hartmann, I

“…Under the familiar possible-worlds semantics, these augmented modal operators receive interpretations such as \"It is true at no fewer than 15 accessible worlds that...\", or \"It is true at no more than 2 accessible worlds that...\". …”