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impossible worlds: a standalone construct

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worlds where logically or metaphysically impossible things hold, used to model hyperintensional content, counterpossibles and logical non-omniscience.

In logic, impossible worlds refers to worlds where logically or metaphysically impossible things hold, used to model hyperintensional content, counterpossibles and logical non-omniscience. This meaning comes from Nolan (1997) in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic.[1]

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  1. Nolan, D. (1997). Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38(4), 535-572. https://doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1039540769

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