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Possible worlds /
The idea of a possible world that differs in some way from our "actual" world - a world where, for example, the grass is red or no people exist - can help us analyse and understand a wide range of philosophical concepts, such as counterfactuals, properties, modality, and the notions of pos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nature of paradox
- Paradox and contradiction
- Believing in surprises : the prediction paradox
- The preface paradox, fallibility and probability
- The lottery paradox
- Newcomb's problem
- The prisoner's dilemma
- The sorites paradox.