Michael Esfeld on Possible Worlds - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Possible World: entity that can be quantified over. There ist a dispute over the question whether possible worlds exist or are only assumed for purposes of proofs of completeness. See also actual world, modal logic, modal realism, realism, actualism, possibility, possibilia, quantification. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Esfeld, Michael Books on Amazon	Possible Worlds	I 200 ~ Possible world/Esfeld: if physically the same, then there are also the same meanings - but if mentally distinguished, then also physically distinguished (supervenience). _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Es I M. Esfeld Holismus Frankfurt/M 2002

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