A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.
The Worlds of Possibility: Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic
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Author(s)Charles S. Chihara
PublisherClarendon Press
ISBN / ASIN0199246556
ISBN-139780199246557
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Sales Rank3,212,160
CategoryPhilosophy
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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