Category
page 1Possible world
possible world
in philosophy, a complete and consistent way the world is or could have been
counterfactual conditional
conditional with a false "if" clause
best of all possible worlds
the doctrine or belief that in the system of things all that happens, the undesirable no less than the desirable, is for the best
rigid designator
term with invariant possible designations
impossible world
term used to model certain phenomena that cannot be adequately handled using ordinary possible worlds
accessibility relation
modal logic relationship