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The Different Approaches to Understanding Possible Worlds

2023-2 Modal Logic (Segment 3) Q) Describe in some detail the different approaches to understanding possible worlds—e.g., out in Lycan’s discussion in “The Trouble with Possible Worlds”. What is the problem of how we know we are actual”? What are some main difficulties of and attempt at a combinatorial approach to possible worlds? What sense of “possible” seems more amenable to a combinatorial a..

Logic/Modal Logic 2024.01.14