Impossible world
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impossible-world-240-4405095
title:
Impossible world
text:
In philosophical logic, the concept of an impossible world
is used to model certain
phenomena that cannot be adequately handled using ordinary possible worlds. An
impossible world, i , is the same sort of thing as a possible world w ,
except that it is in some sense "impossible." Depending on the context, this may mean that some contradictions, statements of the form p & ¬ p are true at i , or that the normal laws of logic, metaphysics, and mathematics, fail to
hold at i , or both. Impossible wo
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description:
Term used to model separate circumstances that cannot exist together
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_world
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date modified:
2023-11-06T23:03:26Z
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