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Possible worlds in literary theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Raghunath, Riyukta. Possible Worlds Theory and Counterfactual Historical Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53452-3.

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Ryan, Marie-Laure. Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

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Borzyh, Stanislav. Theory of the possible. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1074108.

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In this book, we are talking about a single principle that permeates every organized entity, regardless of what sphere it belongs to. Everywhere and always, and in accordance with the current circumstances, the process of formation, support and regulation of any complex complexes and ensembles is guided and controlled by the concept of the realizable, which postulates that only what is stable and stable will be realized, and everything else will be discarded as untenable and unbalanced. These patterns and patterns can be traced resolutely at all levels of existence. And the universe, and life, and consciousness, and mind, and culture are arranged and assembled according to these schemes, because it is difficult, if possible, for them to be any other. This paper provides an overview of this type of layout in these areas, as well as the theory of the achievable and accessible itself. Using examples and theoretical considerations, it is shown that the configuration of all reliable and long-lasting structures is approximately the same or very similar, because it obeys a single end-to-end logic of the formation of any similar substances, whatever they touch and wherever they are found. In addition, it is demonstrated that if something in this spirit is objectified in practice, then its nature and properties must be fundamentally the same as what we observe around or extremely close to it. Finally, the view is argued and developed, according to which everything consists of matter, is constituted by it, is reduced only to it, including any non-physical phenomena. It is concluded that all the wealth of the world is subject to the same laws of its construction, and all this construction observes the universal rules of the functioning of complex things, no matter what they are aimed at. For all those interested in philosophy.

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Poiesis and possible worlds: A study in modality and literary theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

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Sychev, Vasiliy. General cognitive theory. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1819022.

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For its 125th anniversary, the famous magazine "Science" has published a list of the greatest mysteries that modern science has not yet solved. In the second place, the authors of the journal, the best scientists in the world, placed the question of the biological basis of consciousness. The general cognitive theory presented in this monograph provides an answer to this important question, as well as to many other equally important ones. Is it possible to create an artificial intelligence that can realize itself? How do we master the language? How has the culture been preserved for thousands of years? For students and teachers, as well as anyone interested in the problems of the peculiarities of the functioning of the psyche and its formation.

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Girle, Rod. Possible worlds. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

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Possible worlds. Chesham, Bucks: Acumen, 2003.

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Porter, Peter. Possible worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Possible worlds. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 2000.

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Girle, Rod. Possible worlds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

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Mighton, John. Possible worlds. 2nd ed. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1997.

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Possible worlds. [Philadelphia]: Xlibris, 2009.

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Porter, Peter. Possible worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986.

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Bruner, Jerome S. Actual minds, possible worlds. London: Harvard U.P., 1987.

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Heterocosmica: Fiction and possible worlds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Bell, Alice. The possible worlds of hypertext fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Bell, Alice. The possible worlds of hypertext fiction. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Worlds and individuals, possible and otherwise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

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The best of all possible worlds. London: R. Hale, 1987.

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Brown, Gregory, and Yual Chiek, eds. Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42695-2.

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Ledwith, Frank. The best of all possible worlds. London: Hale, 1987.

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The possible worlds of hypertext fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Bell, Alice. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230281288.

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Possible worlds: Logic, semantics and ontology. München: Philosophia, 2010.

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Other worlds. London: Penguin, 1988.

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Topics in the philosphy of possible worlds. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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Semantical essays: Possible worlds and their rivals. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

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Benovsky, Jiri. Persistence through time, and across possible worlds. Frankfurt: Ontos, 2006.

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Sture, Allén, ed. Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences. Berlin, New York: DE GRUYTER, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110866858.

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Possible worlds ; &, A short history of night. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1992.

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Davies, P. C. W. Other worlds. London, England: Penguin Books, 1990.

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Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

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Ronen, Ruth. Possible Worlds in Literary Theory (Literature, Culture, Theory). Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Shakespeares Possible Worlds. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Non-Locality and Possible Worlds: A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement (Epistemische Studien). Ontos Verlag, 2007.

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Wilson, Mark. Is There Life in Possible Worlds? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803478.003.0007.

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Scientists have developed various collections of specialized possibilities to serve as search spaces in which excessive reliance upon speculative forms of lower dimensional modeling or other unwanted details can be skirted. Two primary examples are discussed: the search spaces of machine design and the virtual variations utilized within Lagrangian mechanics. Contemporary appeals to “possible worlds” attempt to imbed these localized possibilities within fully enunciated universes. But not all possibilities are made alike and these reductive schemes should be resisted, on the grounds that they render the utilities of everyday counterfactuals and “possibility” talk incomprehensible. The essay also discusses whether Wittgenstein’s altered views in his Philosophical Investigations reflect similar concerns.

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Russell, Jeffrey Sanford, and John Hawthorne. Possible Patterns. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828198.003.0005.

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“There are no gaps in logical space,” writes Lewis (1986), giving voice to sentiment shared by many philosophers. But different natural ways of trying to make this sentiment precise turn out to conflict with one another. One is a pattern idea: “Any pattern of instantiation is metaphysically possible.” Another is a cut and paste idea: “For any objects in any worlds, there exists a world that contains any number of duplicates of all of those objects.” Jumping off from discussions from Forrest and Armstrong (1984) and Nolan (1996), the authors use resources from model theory to show the inconsistency of certain packages of combinatorial principles and the consistency of others.

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Allen, Sture. Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts, & Sciences: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65 (Research In Text Theory = Untersuchungen Zur Texttheorie,). Walter de Gruyter, 1989.

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Glăveanu, Vlad P. The Possible. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197520499.001.0001.

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This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies are an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, serendipity, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia, among others. The present contribution to this wide field is represented by a sociocultural and pragmatist account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. Put simply, this theory proposes that our explorations of the possible are enabled by our human capacity to relate to the world from more than one position and perspective and to understand that any perspective we hold is, at all times, one among many. Such an account transcends the long-standing dichotomy between the possible and the real, a sterile separation that ends up portraying possibility as separate from and even opposed to reality. On the contrary, the theory of the possible advanced in this book goes back to this notion’s etymological roots (the Latin possibilis—“that can be done,” from posse—“to be able”) and considers it as both a precondition and outcome of human action and interaction. Exploring the possible doesn’t take place outside of or in addition to our experience of the world; rather, it infiltrates it from the start, infuses it with new meanings, and ends up transforming it altogether. This book aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, the workplace, everyday life, and society.

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Berto, Francesco, and Mark Jago. Impossible Worlds. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812791.001.0001.

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The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as nomological, metaphysical, and logical necessity—in terms of a single concept. This was the concept of a possible world: a way things could have been. Possible worlds found applications in logic, metaphysics, semantics, game theory, information theory, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind and cognition. However, possible worlds analyses have been facing numerous problems. This book traces them all back to hyperintensionality: the need for distinctions more fine-grained than the possible worlds apparatus can easily represent. It then introduces impossible worlds—ways things could not have been—as a general tool for modelling hyperintensional phenomena. The book discusses the metaphysics of impossible worlds and applies them to a range of central topics and open issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy: from the problem of logical omniscience in epistemic logic, to the semantics of non-classical logics, the modelling of imagination and mental simulation, the analysis of information and informative inference, truth in fiction, and counterpossible reasoning.

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Sallaz, Jeffrey J. Is a Bourdieusian Ethnography Possible? Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.21.

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Chapter abstract This chapter argues that Pierre Bourdieu’s research program is less compatible with ethnography than it first appears. Bourdieu was critical of structuralism, that perspective on the social world that prioritizes general patterns over lived experience, whereas ethnography claims as its raison d’être the elucidation of lived experience. A close reading of Bourdieu’s entire body of writings, however, reveals multiple reservations about the ethnographic method. At various points Bourdieu argues that ethnography is partial knowledge, impotent knowledge, and dangerous knowledge. This chapter elaborates each of these critiques, and gives ethnography a chance to respond. Ultimately, it concludes that it is possible to do ethnography from within the Bourdieusian research program. But ethnographers must take care to contextualize their field data in its extra-local context; they should deploy systematic research designs; and they must exercise reflexivity as to how one’s position as a scholar shapes one’s experience of others’ social worlds.

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Haldane, J. B. S. Possible Worlds. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Possible Worlds. Serpentine Gallery, 1998.

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Mighton, John. Possible Worlds. Playwrights Canada Press, 2001.

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Haldane, J. B. S., and Carl A. Price. Possible Worlds. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315127057.

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Girle, Rod. Possible Worlds. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315710594.

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