Counterfactuals (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Indicative Conditionals (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Michael Almeida - Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?

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Alvin Plantinga - What are Possible Worlds?

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Andrew Loke - Why is There 'Something' Rather Than 'Nothing'?

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A fragment from "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. #literature #dickens #serendipity #determinism #chance #przypadek #PossibleWorlds

Hemingway says you should all buy Possible Worlds and Other Stories.

https://books2read.com/possible-worlds-by-rachel-handley

Corrupt angels. A sentient spaceship. Invaders from outer space. Dystopia. Friendship, greed, and death. The final judgement. A world made entirely of crabs.

"Rachel Handley is an author to watch". -- Gareth L. Powell

"Delightful, ingenious, and marvellous." -- Adam Roberts

24 stories of philosophical exploration, from identity, corruption, personhood, and friendship, to duty, loyalty, the meaning of life and death ... and guinea pigs.

#writing #amwriting #shortstories #shortstorycollection #nonbinary #nonbinarywriter #hemingway #possibleworlds #writingcommunity #amreading #sff #sciencefiction #specfic #speculativefiction

xkcd: Gravity

https://xkcd.com/2712/

This is very cool. It’s interactive. Explore!

#XKCD #Gravity #PossibleWorlds

xkcd: Gravity

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#Blog today: I look at a new structure of #PossibleWorlds for Intuitionistic #ModalLogic in Plotkin and Stirling's 1986 "A Framework for Intuitionistic Modal Logics" https://updatedscholar.blogspot.com/2022/11/discussing-framework-for-intuitionistic.html #logic
Discussing "A Framework for Intuitionistic Modal Logics (Extended Abstract)"

(Link) Authors: Gordon Plotkin and Colin Stirling (Edinburgh University) Reference: Plotkin, Gordon, and Colin Stirling. "A framework for ...