Static and dynamic vector semantics for lambda calculus models of natural language by Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Reinhard Muskens

“…In the truth conditional approach, the denotation of a sentence determines its truth conditions, which can be taken to be a truth value, a set of possible worlds, a context change potential, or similar. …”
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A Logical-Semantic Analysis of Predicates of Personal Taste in Assessments of Sensory Perception by P. A. Pavlukhina

“…Lewis' version of the semantics of possible worlds. These theories are expanded and supplemented in the modern semantics of taste, which are considered in this article on the example of the works of E.G. …”
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La science‑fiction a‑t‑elle horreur du vide ? Le cas des séries télévisées by Elaine Després, Hélène Machinal

“…If science fiction television series rely on a system of signs that we need to reconstruct, what would be the specificities of these voids and what narrative, interpretive and aesthetic strategies should we use to fill them ? Are the possible worlds of TV science fiction built on the same grammar as those of textual science fiction? …”
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Complex epistemology in Philosophy and Literature by Albeiro Mejia Trujillo

“…Literature has the power to embrace all possible worlds of the human spirit, and the philosophical understanding allows them to be discovered the realities of the cloisters of the literary imagination. …”
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Resolving Distributed Knowledge by Thomas Ågotnes, Yì N. Wáng

“…Distributed knowledge is the sum of the knowledge in a group; what someone who is able to discern between two possible worlds whenever any member of the group can discern between them, would know. …”
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Context-Indexed Counterfactuals by Mariusz Popieluch

“…On truth conditional accounts involving possible worlds semantics, conditionals have been analysed as expressions of relative necessity: “If A, then B” is true at some world w if B is true at all the A-worlds deemed relevant to the evaluation of the conditional at w. …”
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L’optimum : de la théologie aux sciences et aux fictions by Laurent Loty

“…I examine it here in light of its historical origins in theological optimism (God created “the best of all possible worlds”), the subject of my 1995 dissertation in the history of optimism from its emergence in the early eighteenth century to its seeming disappearance during the French Revolution.If the theological origin of the idea of the optimum is so difficult to perceive now, it is because the history of optimism, one of the most consequential ideologies ever to have existed, is also the history of its occultation. …”
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Probabilistic Logic Programming with Conditional Constraints by Lukasiewicz, T

“…<p>We introduce a new approach to probabilistic logic programming in which probabilities are defined over a set of possible worlds. More precisely, classical program clauses are extended by a subinterval of [0,1] that describes a range for the conditional probability of the head of a clause given its body. …”

21W.730-5 Writing on Contemporary Issues: Imagining the Future, Fall 2007 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…In this course we will read and write about how some writers and filmmakers have responded to the present as a way of imagining&mdash;and warning about&mdash;possible worlds to come. Guided by our reading and discussion, we will scrutinize our own present and construct our own visions of the future through close readings of the texts as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture&mdash;urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, the ethics of biotechnologies, issues of race and gender, the romance of technology, robotics and cyborg cultures, media saturation, language and representation&mdash;and the persistent questions they pose about what it means to be human at this start of a new millennium.…”
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21W.730-1 Imagining the Future, Spring 2004 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…In this writing course we will read and write about how some twentieth-century writers and filmmakers have attended to the present as a way of imagining-and warning about-possible worlds to come. Guided by our reading and discussion, we will scrutinize our own present and construct our own visions of the future through close readings of the texts as well as of some aspects of contemporary culture-urban and environmental crises, economic imperialism, sexual and reproductive politics, issues of race and gender, the romance of technology, robotics and cyborg cultures, media saturation, language and representation-and the persistent questions they pose about what it means to be human at this threshold of a new millennium.…”
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Художественная картина мира в романе Лены Элтанг «Каменные клены»| Meninis pasaulėvaizdis Lenos Eltang romane „Akmeniniai klevai“ | Artistic picture of the world in the novel “The... by Galina Mikhailova, Aleksandra Samoylenko

“…The article reviews both space and time continua (namely the past motive, memory, world oppositions, and others) and the use of “text-in-the-text” technique, introduction of the semantics of the “possible worlds”, ideas of virtual reality, etc. The interior space of the novel is composed of equal “small” spaces. …”
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Avicenna's optimistic theodicy by T.K. Ibrahim

“…Justifying the idea of our world as the best of all possible worlds, Ibn Sina anticipated the famous Leibnizian concept of optimus mundus. …”
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The Philosophy of Nature of the Natural Realism. The Operator Algebra from Physics to Logic by Gianfranco Basti

“…Finally, I suggest that in the CT logic, the relational semantics of BAOs, applied to the modal coalgebraic relational logic of the “possible worlds” in Kripke’s model theory, is the proper logic of the formal ontology and epistemology of the natural realism, as a formalized philosophy of nature and sciences.…”
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Undesigned World: what educating through walking means in the Anthropocene by Laia Solé Coromina, Joshua Korenblat

“…For this essay, we draw from a collaborative experience between two educators and thirty students in a course called Designed World, taught at a public university, to explore how attention and intention develop within the practice of walking across “patchy landscapes” (Tsing 2015, 20) or the anthropocentric landscape, and how they can assist thinking about the design of “possible worlds” (Haraway 1991). This essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates ecofeminist theory with ideas of Romantic empiricism and relates them to aesthetic education and theories about walking. …”
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La technique : promesse, mirage et fatalité by Daniel Compagnon, Arnaud Saint-Martin

“…At the start of the 21st century, the public and newsworthy domain is filled with speeches and prophecies about technical innovation with the promise of a better world if not “the best of all possible worlds”, in a distant echo of this ideology of progress which reigned triumphant in the thirty-year post-war boom (“Trente Glorieuses”) which were presumed to have been buried under the avalanche of criticism in the final quarter of the 20th century. …”
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The Relevance of Kant’s Objection to the Ontological Arguments and Avicenna’s Exploration of Existence as an Alternative Grounding by Ayşenur Ünügür Tabur

“…In the present paper, the three most prominent formulations of the ontological argument will be analysed, namely the classical argument which renders existence a perfection, Norman Malcom’s modal version of the argument which labels not existence but necessary existence a perfection, and Alvin Plantinga’s modal version of the argument which appeals to the possible worlds semantics to prove the necessity of God’s existence. …”
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Singer of Graces: the Gallant Montesquieu (“The Temple Of Gnidos” and “Journey To Paphos”) by Veronika D. Altashina

“…Dolezel, the founder of the theory of “possible worlds,” which allows a deeper understanding of how Montesquieu portrays an ideal world, opposed to the French reality, which he criticizes, as in his first novel “Persian Letters.” …”
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Enseigner l’urbanisme par les objets. Retour sur une expérience en école d’ingénieurs et à l’université by Jean-Yves Toussaint, Sophie Vareilles

“…The present article focuses on three exercises proposed in these courses: the exploration of possible worlds through “plans”; observation of the social activities and the role of the objects in these activities during outdoor lessons; finally, the identification through an iconographic survey, of current types in contemporary cities.The content and structure of these courses aim at encouraging students to think about the role of urban objects and devices in the actions of inhabitants and in their social activities. …”
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Psychology of the possible and possibilistic thinking by Viktor V. Znakov

“…The sociocultural understanding of the human world is based on the analysis not only of the actual world, but also of the relation of possible worlds to it. Conclusions. Possibilistic thinking is not structural and meaningful, but functional. …”
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A Logical Foundation for Environment Classifiers by Takeshi Tsukada, Atsushi Igarashi

“…It corresponds to multi-modal logic that allows quantification by transition variables---a counterpart of classifiers---which range over (possibly empty) sequences of labeled transitions between possible worlds. This interpretation will reduce the "run" construct---which has a special typing rule in {\lambda}{\alpha}---and embedding of closed code into other code fragments of different stages---which would be only realized by the cross-stage persistence operator in {\lambda}{\alpha}---to merely a special case of classifier application. …”
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