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Possible world, the Glossary

A possible world is a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been.^[1]

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Al-Ghazali

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali (ٱلْغَزَالِيُّ;,; – 19 December 1111), known in Medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath.

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Alternate history

Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

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Amie Thomasson

Amie Lynn Thomasson (born July 4, 1968) is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.

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Averroes

Ibn Rushd (ابن رشد; full name in; 14 April 112611 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics.

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Best of all possible worlds

The phrase "the best of all possible worlds" (Le meilleur des mondes possibles; Die beste aller möglichen Welten) was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), more commonly known simply as the Theodicy.

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Contingency (philosophy)

In logic, contingency is the feature of a statement making it neither necessary nor impossible. Possible world and contingency (philosophy) are concepts in logic and possibility.

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Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact.

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Database theory

Database theory encapsulates a broad range of topics related to the study and research of the theoretical realm of databases and database management systems.

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David Lewis (philosopher)

David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher.

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Deception

Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information.

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Duns Scotus

John Duns Scotus ("Duns the Scot"; – 8 November 1308) was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian.

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Extended modal realism

Extended modal realism is a metaphysical theory developed by Takashi Yagisawa.

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Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic.

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Fictionalism

Fictionalism is the view in philosophy which posits that statements appearing to be descriptions of the world should not be construed as such, but should instead be understood as cases of "make believe." Thus, allowing individuals to treat something as literally true (a "useful fiction").

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First-order logic

First-order logic—also called predicate logic, predicate calculus, quantificational logic—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science.

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Formal semantics (natural language)

Formal semantics is the study of grammatical meaning in natural languages using formal tools from logic, mathematics and theoretical computer science. Possible world and formal semantics (natural language) are semantics.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (– 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969.

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Impossible world

In philosophical logic, the concept of an impossible world (sometimes called a non-normal world) is used to model certain phenomena that cannot be adequately handled using ordinary possible worlds. Possible world and impossible world are concepts in logic.

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Indexicality

In semiotics, linguistics, anthropology, and philosophy of language, indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to (or indexing) some element in the context in which it occurs. Possible world and indexicality are semantics.

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Intensional logic

Intensional logic is an approach to predicate logic that extends first-order logic, which has quantifiers that range over the individuals of a universe (extensions), by additional quantifiers that range over terms that may have such individuals as their value (intensions).

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Journal of the History of Philosophy

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal.

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Kripke semantics

Kripke semantics (also known as relational semantics or frame semantics, and often confused with possible world semantics) is a formal semantics for non-classical logic systems created in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Saul Kripke and André Joyal. Possible world and Kripke semantics are modal logic.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Logic

Logic is the study of correct reasoning.

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Logical possibility

Logical possibility refers to a logical proposition that cannot be disproved, using the axioms and rules of a given system of logic. Possible world and logical possibility are modal logic and possibility.

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Logical truth

Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic. Possible world and Logical truth are concepts in logic.

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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.

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Modal fictionalism

Modal fictionalism is a term used in philosophy, and more specifically in the metaphysics of modality, to describe the position that holds that modality can be analysed in terms of a fiction about possible worlds.

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Modal logic

Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. Possible world and Modal logic are semantics.

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Modal realism

Modal realism is the view propounded by philosopher David Lewis that all possible worlds are real in the same way as is the actual world: they are "of a kind with this world of ours." It is based on four tenets: possible worlds exist, possible worlds are not different in kind from the actual world, possible worlds are irreducible entities, and the term actual in actual world is indexical, i.e.

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Molinism

Molinism, named after 16th-century Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina, is the thesis that God has middle knowledge (or scientia media): the knowledge of counterfactuals, particularly counterfactuals regarding human action.

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Montague grammar

__notoc__ Montague grammar is an approach to natural language semantics, named after American logician Richard Montague. Possible world and Montague grammar are semantics.

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Multiverse

The multiverse is the hypothetical set of all universes.

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N-universes

The n-universes are a conceptual tool introduced by philosopher Paul Franceschi.

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Natural language

In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change without conscious planning or premeditation.

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Noûs

Noûs is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on philosophy published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Nonexistent objects

In metaphysics and ontology, nonexistent objects are a concept advanced by Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong in the 19th and 20th centuries within a "theory of objects".

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On the Plurality of Worlds

On the Plurality of Worlds (1986) is a book by the philosopher David Lewis that defends the thesis of modal realism.

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Ontological commitment

In formal semantics, an ontological commitment of a language is one or more objects postulated to exist by that language.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Philosophical zombie

A philosophical zombie (or "p-zombie") is a being in a thought experiment in the philosophy of mind that is physically identical to a normal human being but does not have conscious experience.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy of mind

The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.

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Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions".

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Physicalism

In philosophy, physicalism is the view that "everything is physical", that there is "nothing over and above" the physical, or that everything supervenes on the physical.

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Probabilistic database

Most real databases contain data whose correctness is uncertain.

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Quantifier (logic)

In logic, a quantifier is an operator that specifies how many individuals in the domain of discourse satisfy an open formula. Possible world and quantifier (logic) are semantics.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.

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Richard Montague

Richard Merritt Montague (September 20, 1930 – March 7, 1971) was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Robert Stalnaker

Robert Culp Stalnaker (born 1940) is an American philosopher who is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke (November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic philosopher and logician.

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Standard translation

In modal logic, standard translation is a logic translation that transforms formulas of modal logic into formulas of first-order logic which capture the meaning of the modal formulas. Possible world and standard translation are modal logic.

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Succinct data structure

In computer science, a succinct data structure is a data structure which uses an amount of space that is "close" to the information-theoretic lower bound, but (unlike other compressed representations) still allows for efficient query operations.

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Supervenience

In philosophy, supervenience refers to a relation between sets of properties or sets of facts. Possible world and supervenience are concepts in logic.

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The Incoherence of the Incoherence

The Incoherence of the Incoherence (تهافت التهافت Tahāfut al-Tahāfut) by Andalusian Muslim polymath and philosopher Ibn Rushd (Ibn Rushd, 1126–1198) is an important Islamic philosophical treatise in which the author defends the use of Aristotelian philosophy within Islamic thought.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_world

Also known as Actual world, Possible Universe, Possible Universes, Possible world semantics, Possible worlds, Possible worlds semantics.

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