A classically-based theory of impossible worlds (Q1276427)
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A classically-based theory of impossible worlds (English)
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21 June 1999
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In the author's metaphysics a situation is an abstract object which encodes a set of propositions, where a proposition is a \(0\)-ary property. A possible world encodes a maximal consistent set of propositions and an impossible world encodes a maximal set of propositions which is not consistent.
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possible world
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