Journal articles: 'Theory of possible worlds'

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Francisco J. López Arias. "Possible Worlds." Science Fiction Studies 43, no. 1 (2016): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.43.1.0171.

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Ronen, Ruth. "Possible Worlds in Literary Theory." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53, no. 4 (1995): 449. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/430993.

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Tambling, Jeremy, Ruth Ronen, Karl Heinz Bohrer, and Ruth Crowley. "Possible Worlds in Literary Theory." Modern Language Review 92, no. 1 (January 1997): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3734692.

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Klaver, Elizabeth. "Possible Worlds, Mathematics, and John Mighton's Possible Worlds." Narrative 14, no. 1 (2006): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2005.0027.

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Raghunath, Riyukta. "Possible worlds theory, accessibility relations, and counterfactual historical fiction." Journal of Literary Semantics 51, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2022-2047.

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Abstract Possible Worlds Theory has commonly been invoked to describe fictional worlds and their relationship to the actual world. As an approach to genre, the relationship between fictional worlds and the actual world is also constitutive of specific text types. By drawing on the notion of accessibility relations, different genres can be classified based on the distance between their fictional worlds and the actual world. Maître, Doreen. 1983. Literature and possible worlds. Middlesex: Middlesex University Press for example, in what is considered the first attempt to adapt accessibility relations from logic to literary studies, distinguishes between four text types depending on the extent to which their fictional worlds can be seen as possible, probable, or impossible in the actual world. Developing Maître’s work, Ryan, Marie-Laure. 1991a. Possible worlds and accessibility relations: A semantic typology of fiction. Poetics Today 12. 553–576, c.f. Ryan, Marie-Laure. 1991b. Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press) creates a comprehensive taxonomy of accessibility relations that may be perceived between fictional worlds and the actual world. This includes assuming compatibility with the actual world in terms of physical laws, general truths, people, places, and entities. Using her taxonomy, she then offers a typology of 13 genres to show how fictional worlds created by different genres differ from each other. As it stands, Ryan’s typology does not contain the genre of counterfactual historical fiction, but similar genres such as science fiction and historical confabulation are included. In this article, specific examples from counterfactual historical fiction are analysed to show why it is problematic to place these texts within the genres of historical confabulation or science fiction. Furthermore, as I show, Ryan’s typological model also does not account for some of the characteristic features of the genre of counterfactual historical fiction and as such the model cannot account for all texts within the genre. To resolve this issue, I offer modifications to Ryan’s model so it may be used more effectively to define and distinguish the genre of counterfactual historical fiction.

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Lähteenmäki, Ilkka. "Possible Worlds of History." Journal of the Philosophy of History 12, no. 1 (March 22, 2018): 164–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341354.

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Abstract The theory of possible worlds has been minimally employed in the field of theory and philosophy of history, even though it has found a place as a tool in other areas of philosophy. Discussion has mostly focused on arguments concerning counterfactual history’s status as either useful or harmful. The theory of possible worlds can, however be used also to analyze historical writing. The concept of textual possible worlds offers an interesting framework to work with for analyzing a historical text’s characteristics and features. However, one of the challenges is that the literary theory’s notion of possible worlds is that they are metaphorical in nature. This in itself is not problematic but while discussing about history, which arguably deals with the real world, the terminology can become muddled. The latest attempt to combine the literary and philosophical notions of possible worlds and apply it to historiography came from Lubomír Doležel in his Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage (2010). I offer some criticism to his usage of possible worlds to separate history and fiction, and argue that when historiography is under discussion a more philosophical notion of possible worlds should be prioritized over the metaphorical interpretation of possible worlds.

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Mancilla, Blanca, and John Plaice. "Possible Worlds Versioning." Mathematics in Computer Science 2, no. 1 (November 2008): 63–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11786-008-0044-8.

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McH., B., and Jerome Bruner. "Actual Minds, Possible Worlds." Poetics Today 8, no. 2 (1987): 452. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1773049.

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Dolezel, Lubomir. "Mimesis and Possible Worlds." Poetics Today 9, no. 3 (1988): 475. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772728.

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Ryan, Marie-Laure. "Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51, no. 3 (1993): 526. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/431530.

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Yako, Masato. "Possible Worlds in Musical Theory and Practice." International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 33, no. 2 (December 2002): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4149776.

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Lee, Jeong-woo. "Towards an Immanent Theory of Possible Worlds." Journal of The Society of philosophical studies 118 (September 30, 2017): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.23908/jsps.2017.09.118.53.

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R., R., and Marie-Laure Ryan. "Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory." Poetics Today 14, no. 1 (1993): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1773159.

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Herman, David, and Marie-Laure Ryan. "Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory." SubStance 23, no. 2 (1994): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685081.

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Usó-Doménech, José-Luis, Josué-Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Lorena Segura-Abad, Hugh Gash, and Kristian Alonso-Stenberg. "Cantor Paradoxes, Possible Worlds and Set Theory." Mathematics 7, no. 7 (July 15, 2019): 628. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math7070628.

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In this paper, we illustrate the paradox concerning maximally consistent sets of propositions, which is contrary to set theory. It has been shown that Cantor paradoxes do not offer particular advantages for any modal theories. The paradox is therefore not a specific difficulty for modal concepts, and it also neither grants advantages nor disadvantages for any modal theory. The underlying problem is quite general, and affects anyone who intends to use the notion of “world” in its ontology.

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Peer, Willie van. "Book Review: Possible Worlds in Literary Theory." MLN 111, no. 5 (1996): 1045–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mln.1996.0071.

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Semino, Elena. "Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 2, no. 2 (May 1993): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394709300200211.

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Oatley, Keith. "Worlds of the possible." Pragmatics and Cognition 21, no. 3 (December 31, 2013): 448–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.21.3.02oat.

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The ability to think in abstractions depends on the imagination. An important evolutionary change was the installation of a suite of six imaginative activities that emerge at first in childhood, which include empathy, symbolic play, and theory-of-mind. These abilities can be built upon in adulthood to enable the production of oral and written stories. As a technology, writing has three aspects: material, skill based, and societal. It is in fiction that expertise in writing is most strikingly attained; imagination is put to use to create simulations of the social world that can usefully be offered to others. Fiction is best conceived as an externalization of consciousness, which not only enables us to understand others but also to transform ourselves so that we can reach beyond the immediate.

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Pavel, T. "Heterocosmica. Fiction and Possible Worlds." Comparative Literature 52, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 266–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/-52-3-266.

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Mergler, Nancy, Ronald Schleifer, and Jerome Bruner. "Actual Minds, Possible Worlds." MLN 101, no. 5 (December 1986): 1279. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2905728.

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Kim, Jaegwon. "Possible Worlds and Annstrong's Combinatorialism." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16, no. 4 (December 1986): 595–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1986.10717138.

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At the outset of his instructive and thought-provoking paper, ‘The Nature of Possibility,’ Professor David Armstrong gives a succinct description, in itself almost complete, of his ‘combinatorial theory’ of possibility. He says: ‘Such a view traces the very idea of possibility to the idea of the combinations - allthe combinations which respect certain simple form- of given, actual elements’ (575). We can perhaps start a bit further back than this. In explaining the idea of a ‘possible world,’ some philosophers begin with the idea of ‘things being a certain way’ or ‘the way things are.’ From this idea a leap is made to ‘things might have been a certain other way’ or ‘ways things could have been.’ And here we already have possible worlds, or so some philosophers assure us: David Lewis, for example, says his talk of possible worlds is nothing but a ‘permissible paraphrase’ of this familiar and innocent-sounding locution, ‘ways things could have been.'

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Amit Marcus. "Narrative Ethics and Possible Worlds Theory: Toward a Rapprochement." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 4 (2012): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.4.2012.0099.

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Ran, Xiaohui. "Question Understanding from the Perspective of Context Theory." Journal of Research in Philosophy and History 4, no. 2 (June 18, 2021): p28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jrph.v4n2p28.

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This paper uses context theory to study the question in natural language. In syntax, questions can be classified into polar questions, alternative questions, concealed questions, and inquisitive questions. In semantics, it can be divided into polar questions and inquisitive questions. Only inquisitive questions with characteristics of inquisitiveness, informativeness, compliance, and transparency need to be studied by context theory. There are three levels for question context: question-answer facts, background knowledge, and question presupposition. The question context composes the possible world where the question is. Question understanding is a function of the mapping of the question through the possible worlds, and the set of propositions consisting of different possible worlds of the question context and the set of propositions consisting of different possible answers to the question are mapped to each other, resulting in different answers in different possible worlds of the same question.

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Besnard, Philippe, and Torsten Schaub. "POSSIBLE WORLDS SEMANTICS FOR DEFAULT LOGICS." Fundamenta Informaticae 21, no. 1,2 (1994): 39–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/fi-1994-21123.

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DROSTE, FLIP G. "Possible worlds in linguistic semantics." Semiotica 73, no. 1-2 (1989): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/semi.1989.73.1-2.1.

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Cioffi, Frank L. "Coover's (Im)Possible Worlds inThe Public Burning." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 42, no. 1 (January 2000): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111610009603124.

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Maza, Antonio José Planells de la. "The expressive power of the Possible Worlds Theory in video games: when narratives become interactive and fictional spaces." Comunicação e Sociedade 27 (June 29, 2015): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.27(2015).2102.

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The philosophical concept of possible worlds (Lenzen, 2004; Lewis, 1986) has been used in literary studies and narratology (Dolezel, 1998; Eco, 1979) to define the way in which we conceive different narrative possibilities inside the fictional world. In Game Studies, some authors have used this concept to explore the relationship between game design and game experience (Kücklich, 2003; Maietti, 2004; Ryan, 2006), while Jesper Juul (2005) has studied the fictional world evoked by the connection between rules and fiction. In this paper we propose a new approach to video games as ludofictional worlds - a set of possible worlds which generates a game space based on the relationship between fiction and game rules. In accordance with the concepts of minimal departure (Ryan, 1991) and indexical term (Lewis, 1986), the position of the player character determines his/her actual world and the next possible or necessary world. Lastly, we use this model to analyse the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and show that the possible worlds perspective provides a useful, flexible and modular framework for describing the internal connections between ludofictional worlds and the interactive nature of playable game spaces.

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Norris, Margot. "Possible Worlds Theory and the Fantasy Universe of Finnegans Wake." James Joyce Quarterly 44, no. 3 (2008): 455–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2008.0018.

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Norris, Margot. "Possible Worlds Theory and the Fantasy Universe of Finnegans Wake." James Joyce Quarterly 50, no. 1-2 (2012): 413–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2012.0077.

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Pearce, David, and Heinrich Wansing. "On the methodology of possible worlds semantics. I. Correspondence theory." Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 29, no. 4 (September 1988): 482–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1093638013.

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Johnson, Ryan. "A Critique of ‘Literary Worlds’ in World Literature Theory." Journal of World Literature 3, no. 3 (August 10, 2018): 354–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00303008.

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Abstract Recently, critics of world literature such as Alexander Beecroft, Eric Hayot, and Haun Saussy have argued that a multitude of possible literary worlds make up the world of world literature. Literary worlds theory provides a richer and more relativistic account of how literary production and analysis work than do similar models such as Franco Moretti’s and Pascale Casanova’s world literary systems. However, the theory runs into two difficulties: it downplays the socio-historical situation of the critic and the text; and it has difficulty accounting for the cross-world identity of characters and how logically inconsistent worlds access one another. To refine the theory, I modify G.E.R. Lloyd’s concept of the “multidimensionality” of reality and literature. Strengthening Lloyd’s concept through reference to recent work in comparative East-West philosophy, I contend that the addition of Lloyd’s theory resolves the problems presented above while still allowing for a relativistic critical approach to world literature.

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Kauffman, Louis H. "Calculus, Gauge Theory and Noncommutative Worlds." Symmetry 14, no. 3 (February 22, 2022): 430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym14030430.

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This paper shows how gauge theoretic structures arise in a noncommutative calculus where the derivations are generated by commutators. These patterns include Hamilton’s equations, the structure of the Levi–Civita connection, and generalizations of electromagnetism that are related to gauge theory and with the early work of Hermann Weyl. The territory here explored is self-contained mathematically. It is elementary, algebraic, and subject to possible generalizations that are discussed in the body of the paper.

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Campbell, George S., and David F. J. Campbell. "The Semi-Aquatic Theory." International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 2, no. 1 (January 2011): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jsesd.2011010102.

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This article presents the semi-aquatic theory motivated to provide an explanation for why or how did language of the modern humans develop? Key propositions of this theory are early hominids went through a semi-aquatic evolutionary phase and that this semi-aquatic environment exposed the early hominids to frequent visual reflections of their own image, thus transforming a “potential sense of self” to an “active sense of self”, which supported the language development of early hominids. In the epilog of this article, the semi-aquatic theory is being framed and assessed in context of a broader discussion that receives analytical input from “Conceptualized Evolution” and social ecology. Conceptualized Evolution distinguishes between “possible worlds of evolution” and “real worlds of evolution”. However, Conceptualized Evolution stresses that based on “theoretical” (theoretically designed) examples of evolution, even if they never existed empirically, much could be learned for an understanding of our real world. The semi-aquatic theory qualifies at least as a conceptually possible scenario of evolution.

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Seabright, Paul. "Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies." Common Knowledge 22, no. 3 (September 2016): 509.2–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-3634163.

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Kinzer. "Possible Worlds: Trans-world Travel, Haecceity and Grief in Jacques Roubaud's The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis." Journal of Modern Literature 34, no. 3 (2011): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.34.3.162.

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Catungal, John Paul. "Imagining between possible and realized: Creative world-making as politically situated knowledge production." Dialogues in Human Geography 9, no. 2 (June 26, 2019): 150–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619850268.

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In this rejoinder to Dragos Simandan’s (2019) consolidated theory of the partiality of geographical knowledge, I draw on feminisms of colour, including Black and Chicanx feminisms, to re-place power at the heart of how we understand the situatedness and limitations of how we know, experience and produce worlds. Furthermore, dissatisfied with Simandan’s binary construction of ‘possible worlds’ (in plural) and the ‘realized world’ (in singular), and his call to move beyond ‘ simply social difference’ (my emphasis) in how we theorize the partiality of geographical knowledge, I centre creative practices by marginalized people as practices that conjoin navigating the unjust ‘real’ world and imagining different, more just worlds. The artistic works of Cree/Irish artist Kent Monkman provide powerful examples of art as geographical knowledge that makes room both for critiques of the gender, racial and sexual violence of settler colonial world-making and for the agentive production of alternate worlds by Indigenous people, including through their creative practices.

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Felin, Teppo, and Nicolai J. Foss. "Performativity of Theory, Arbitrary Conventions, and Possible Worlds: A Reality Check." Organization Science 20, no. 3 (June 2009): 676–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0433.

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Earnshaw, S. "Possible Worlds in Literary Theory; Anti-Mimesis: From Plato to Hitchcock." English 46, no. 186 (September 1, 1997): 272–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/46.186.272.

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Nocic, Vladimir, and Jasmina Nocic. "Modal logic and logic of fiction." Theoria, Beograd 56, no. 4 (2013): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1304047n.

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This paper analyzes the views of representative theoreticians of possible worlds semantics and possible worlds theory in an attempt to ascertain the degree and manner of interdisciplinary borrowing through focusing on possible worlds and individuals in those worlds. The paper first clarifies the general perceptions of possible worlds, perceptions in the field of modal restrictions, transworld identity, and identity over time, as presented in the works of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and Nicholas Rescher, the representative semanticists of possible worlds, and then ascertains the degree and manner of their adaptations in the theory proposed by Ljubomir Dolezel within literary theory. The conclusion is that the cooperation between the two disciplines stands on fertile ground but that it is necessary to perform more systematic adaptations due to different subjects of research and different objectives.

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Karpenko, Ivan A. "The Problem of the Influence of Possible Worlds on the Nature of Their Perception under the Conditions of Various Fundamental Physical Principles." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63, no. 2 (May 16, 2020): 63–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2019-63-2-63-82.

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The article is devoted to the problem of interpreting of the several consequences that derive from multi-world concepts of modern physics. The inflation scenario and the associated string landscape model are the objects of analysis. The reviewed multi-world concepts are exposed to presume the existence of a plenitude (possibly infinite) of various fundamental principles (laws of nature) that govern the physics of one or another possible reality. The research is based on the hermeneutical method, comparative method, dialectical method, formal translation method, and scientific modeling method. The author represents specifics of physical theories (the criteria and requirements for them) that claim to describe all possible worlds in the conclusions. In this regard, the issues of the status of “possible” and “impossible” worlds and practicable ways to determine them are discussed. The main result of the study is the justification (based on the assumption of many fundamentally different worlds scenario possibility) that each type of world must correspond to a certain structure of consciousness defined by its basic physical principles (and probably other mathematics). This possibly means that a unified “theory of everything” that includes all possible mathematical and physical fundamental structures cannot exist since every one of them determines a specific type of consciousness (where it is possible).

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Karpenko, Ivan A. "The Problem of the Influence of Possible Worlds on the Nature of Their Perception under the Conditions of Various Fundamental Physical Principles." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 63, no. 2 (February 15, 2020): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2020-63-2-63-82.

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The article is devoted to the problem of interpreting of the several consequences that derive from multi-world concepts of modern physics. The inflation scenario and the associated string landscape model are the objects of analysis. The reviewed multi-world concepts are exposed to presume the existence of a plenitude (possibly infinite) of various fundamental principles (laws of nature) that govern the physics of one or another possible reality. The research is based on the hermeneutical method, comparative method, dialectical method, formal translation method, and scientific modeling method. The author represents specifics of physical theories (the criteria and requirements for them) that claim to describe all possible worlds in the conclusions. In this regard, the issues of the status of “possible” and “impossible” worlds and practicable ways to determine them are discussed. The main result of the study is the justification (based on the assumption of many fundamentally different worlds scenario possibility) that each type of world must correspond to a certain structure of consciousness defined by its basic physical principles (and probably other mathematics). This possibly means that a unified “theory of everything” that includes all possible mathematical and physical fundamental structures cannot exist since every one of them determines a specific type of consciousness (where it is possible).

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Kirichenko, Vladislav V. "Fabula Nova Obscura Est: Possible Worlds in “Final Fantasy XIII-2”." Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 3, no. 4 (December 18, 2021): 68–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i4.201.

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Modern narratological researches are quite well developed and has long gone beyond the purely philological field. One of the applications of narratology is the study of computer games, the most relevant new medium. This paper is devoted to the issue of unusual narrative strategies used in games on the example of Final Fantasy XIII-2. The analysis is conducted via the possible-worlds method, which is currently in demand in modern humanities, but it is less known in Russia. The aim of the research is to determine the function of possible worlds existing in Final Fantasy XIII-2 for a better understanding of the game design. In the course of the work, the author examines the internal structure of the game world with the help of the theory of possible worlds, analyzes the narrative strategy, and makes a game scheme of possible worlds with accessibility links which let to see the deep internal structure of the narrative game world. In conclusion, it is clear that Final Fantasy XIII-2 contains a non-trivial narrative structure with multiple branches that is smoothed out by the gameplay and cinematic experience of the player, although such a composition of possible worlds represents a complex scheme of the game's macrocosm which demands a close attention to the narrative. The article is intended for various humanitarian specialists interested in the study of computer games.

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Baber, Harriet E. "Counterpart Theories: The Argument from Concern." Metaphysica 22, no. 1 (February 17, 2021): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mp-2021-2020.

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Abstract Modal counterpart theory identifies a thing’s possibly being F with its having a counterpart that is F at another possible world; temporal counterpart theory, the stage view, according to which people and other ordinary objects are instantaneous stages, identifies a thing’s having been F or going to be F, with its having a counterpart that is F at another time. Both counterpart theories invite what has been called ‘the argument from concern’ (Rosen, G. 1990. “Modal Fictionalism.” Mind 99 (395): 327–54). Why should I be concerned about my counterparts at other possible worlds or other times? I care about how things might have gone for me—not how they go for other people at other possible worlds; I care about my prospects—not the way go for other people at other times. Jiri Benovsky has argued that while modal counterpart theory can be defended against this style of argument, temporal counterpart theory cannot (Benovsky, J. 2015. “Alethic Modalities, Temporal Modalities, and Representation.” Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 29: 18–34). I argue that temporal counterpart theory, like modal counterpart theory, resists the argument from concern.

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Hankinson, R. J. "Galen and the Best of All Possible Worlds." Classical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (May 1989): 206–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800040593.

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Voltaire's Pangloss, the man who held among other things that noses were clearly created in order to support spectacles, is the very archetype of the lunatic teleologist; a caricature of sublimely confident faith in the general and undeniable goodness of the world's arrangement, a faith that managed astoundingly to survive the Lisbon earthquake and his own subsequentauto dafé. Voltaire, of course, is poking fun at such conceptions; and, no doubt, in their extreme sanguinity as well as in their apparent imperviousness to devastating empirical counter-evidence, they do seem to be eminently risible notions. In the face of them we might be tempted to abandon ‘métaphysico-théologo-cosmolonigologie’, and to agree with Candide that ‘Cela est bien dit, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin’.

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Krapivkina, Olga A. "Expert-lay interaction in jury trials (case study of closing arguments)." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 5, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2017-0029.

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Abstract This study arises out of the intention to examine the features of expert-lay interaction in a jury trial. The paper studies closing arguments constructed by legal experts as possible worlds which would be attractive for jurors. Theory of possible worlds is employed to present discourse practices as versions of the real world which may overlap, supplement or contradict one another. Legal experts construe and present possible worlds to jury members who deliver verdicts on the case, i.e. possess decisional power. Efficient involvement of jurors into the possible world constructed by the legal expert signals formation of discourse of concord. In order to make their own possible world more credible than the world of the procedural opponents, legal experts employ different interaction tools: description of legal concepts, empathy, appeals to social values, imperative and question utterances, personalization.

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Pirnajmuddin, Hossein, and Sara Saei Dibavar. "Liberal Failure." Anafora 7, no. 1 (2020): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29162/anafora.v7i1.7.

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John Updike’s Rabbit, Run addresses the human condition under the reign of capital in the context of a society in transition toward a neoliberal state. By depicting a protagonist preoccupied with desire and consciousness through recounting his immediate experiences, the narrative delineates the confusion inherent in the capitalistic state for the protagonist in search of a way out toward self-actualization. Through the application of possible world theory, it is argued that the imbalance between Rabbit’s counterfactual possible worlds and his actual world accounts for the failure he experiences in his quest. As such, the possible worlds’ disequilibrium, we argue, ultimately leads to Rabbit’s bitter failure in his search; too many possible worlds in their counterfactual state produce a kind of counter-reality where there are too many fantasy/wish worlds, but few obligation worlds, a situation that leads to all the inevitable consequences we witness at the end of Book One of the Rabbit tetralogy.

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Amani, Omid, Hossein Pirnajmuddin, and Seyed Mohammad Marandi. "Sam Shepard and the “Familial Maze”: Possible Worlds Theory in Buried Child." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 17, no. 2 (May 26, 2017): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2017-1702-05.

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Ryan, Marie-Laure. "Possible Worlds and Accessibility Relations: A Semantic Typoloty of Fiction." Poetics Today 12, no. 3 (1991): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772651.

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VANCE, CHAD. "Classical theism and modal realism are incompatible." Religious Studies 52, no. 4 (July 28, 2016): 561–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003441251600010x.

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AbstractThe classical conception of God is that of a necessary being. On a possible worlds semantics, this entails that God exists at every possible world. According to the modal realist account of David Lewis, possible worlds are understood to be real, concrete worlds – no different in kind from the actual world. But, modal realism is equipped to accommodate the existence of a necessary being in only one of three ways: (1) By way of counterpart theory, or (2) by way of a special case of trans-world identity for causally inert necessary beings (e.g. pure sets), or else (3) causally potent ones which lack accidental intrinsic properties. I argue that each of these three options entails unacceptable consequences – (1) and (2) are incompatible with theism, and (3) is incompatible with modal realism. I conclude that (at least) one of these views is false.

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Chen, Jun. "Interpretation of Possible Worlds of The Buddha of Suburb and Its Multi-themes." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 11 (November 1, 2018): 1535. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0811.21.

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The article attempts to use cognitive poetics’ possible worlds theory to explore how the novel The Buddha of Suburbia narrates stories with its unique skills and how readers participate in the reading process and form possible worlds about the novel so as to understand such multiple themes as identity, racial discrimination and features of the times in it.

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