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The best possible option of impossible worlds: Hybrid Modal Realism
Author(s) -
Ádám Tamas Tuboly
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
különbség
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-158X
pISSN - 1785-7821
DOI - 10.14232/kulonbseg.2018.18.1.228
Subject(s) - possible world , modal , realism , face (sociological concept) , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , sociology , linguistics , chemistry , polymer chemistry
In this paper I reconstruct the merits and drawbacks of the concretist and abstractionist theories of possible worlds and face them with the challenge of impossible worlds. I show how these two types of theories deal with the problem of impossibilities, and argue that the best option is two advance the so-called hybrid modal realism, namely concret possible worlds and abstract impossible worlds. Finally, as a conclusion, I highlight some of the disadvantages of this view as well and note the possibility of a Carnap-like solution.

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