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Worlds and individuals, possible and otherwise
New York: Oxford University Press (2010)
Abstract
Modal realism -- Time, space, world -- Existence -- Actuality -- Modal realism and modal tense -- Transworld individuals and their identity -- Existensionalism -- Impossibility -- Proposition and relief -- Fictional worlds -- Epistemology.Author's Profile
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BD331.Y34 2010
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9780199576890 0199576890
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Modal realism says that non-actual possible worlds and individuals are as real as the actual world and individuals. This book defends modal realism of a variety different from David Lewis’s theory. The notion of reality is left primitive and sharply distinguished from that of existence, wh... see more
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