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Possible Worlds (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Possible Worlds (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Ever since Saul Kripke and others developed a semantic
interpretation for modal logic, 'possible worlds' has been a much
debated issue in contemporary metaphysics. To propose the idea of a
possible world that differs in some way from our actual world - for
example a world where the grass is red or where no people exist -
can help us to analyse and understand a wide range of philosophical
concepts, such as counterfactuals, properties, modality, and of
course, the notions of possibility and necessity. This book
examines the ways in which possible worlds have been used as a
framework for considering problems in logic and argument analysis.
The book begins with a non-technical introduction to the basic
ideas of modal logic in terms of Kripke's possible worlds and then
moves on to a discussion of 'possible for' and 'possible that'. The
central chapters examine questions of meaning, epistemic
possibility, temporal logic, metaphysics, and impossibility. Girle
also investigates how the idea of a possible world can be put to
use in different areas of philosophy, the problems it may raise,
and the benefits that can be gained.
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