Pour une cartographie plurielle des identités culturelles by Besma Mezioud

“…Contemporary cultural identity transpires through the third space of Algerian postcolonial literature, as a possible world, an imaginary alternative to the collective memory resulting from alienating patterns. …”
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Communiquer par l’image : Trois essais de culture visuelle. by Sylvie Fabre

“…Through three analytical essays on diverse objects, the author shows us the “possible world” that each of these visual elements contributes to creating.…”
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The subtraction argument(s) by Paseau, A

“…The subtraction argument aims to show that there is an empty world, in the sense of a possible world with no concrete objects. The argument has been endorsed by several philosophers. …”

El argumento de sustracción para universales trascendentes by José Tomás Alvarado Marambio

“…One can consider, then, a possible world where only one object instantiates a universal. …”
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La petite fille de la surface comme figure de la dissolution du soi by Öznur Karakaş

“…The jeune fille/the feminine is accordingly construed as an aleatory point at the intersection of possible world(s). This in turn resonates with Luce Irigaray’s project with respect to sexual difference, in which she calls upon feminists to create conceptions of the feminine as pure difference, not captured by the name of the Father or the patriarchal symbolic system.…”
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The possibility of a free-will defence for the problem of natural evil by Mawson, T

“…I provide my own argument for there being no possible world in which creatures enjoying this sort of freedom exist yet suffer no natural evil, and conclude that the way is thus open for extending the free-will defence to the problem of natural evil.…”

Une nouvelle sémantique de l’itération modale by Brice Halimi

“…Indeed, it amounts, intuitively, to saying that the proposition is necessarily true whatever the range of all the possible worlds may be. This range, upon which the assessment of simple necessity relies, then becomes a possible datum among others, which triggers the reference to higher-order possible worlds. …”
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No best world: creaturely freedom by Leftow, B

“…William Rowe and others argue that if this is a possible world than which there is a better, it follows that God does not exist. …”

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. …”

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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The Problem of Transworld Identity: in Defence of Essentialism by Pranciškus Gricius

“…In this article, the problem of transworld identity – that is the question, if and how it is possible to ground the intuition that the same individual exists in more than one possible world – is solved by arguing that individuals have essences. …”
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L’écriture réflexive dans LA KAHENA de Salim Bachi by Leila Oulebsir, Sabrina Fatmi

“…Thus, Bachi’s novel which seems to differ from the aporias of structuralism, without departing totally from it, clearly displays a singular and complex way of reflecting on the language and spirit of a possible world, in a sensitive relationship with human experience.…”
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A New Explanation of Why the Euthyphro Dilemma Is a False Dilemma by Atle Ottesen Søvik

“…It is the combination of individual preferences into a possible world that is valuated the most by the most that gives the normative goal for moral choices. …”
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Objective scope in English biographical narrative: typology of referential relations by Yakiv Bystrov

“…The hypothesis is that the possible world embodied in fictional world of the narrative is based on the mechanisms of reference similar to that of the real world. …”
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Conceptual thinking in Hegel’s by Pirmin STEKELER-WEITHOFER

“…Such “things” exist only in ideal “possible world” which are nothing but structured sets of purely mathematical sets. …”
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Recientes desarrollos en la investigación textológica by Luciano Vitacolonna

“…After shortly dealing with some interdisciplinary questions that regard text research (for instance, the role and the relations of pragmatics and semantics, the importance of proceduralism, the role of several types of logic, the utilization of the concepts of possible world and frame, etc.), I single out the most urgent tasks and aims that semiotic textology has to meet, for example the reformulation of the concept and function of both sign and text / discourse, some critical remarks concerning Chomsky's paradigm, the distinction and explication of different kinds of interpretation (theoretical, structural, procedural, evaluative, etc.), the analyse of multimedial texts and hypertexts, and so on.…”
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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. …”