Impossible worlds: A modest approach

DOI10.1305/ndjfl/1039540769zbMath0916.03013OpenAlexW2061470644MaRDI QIDQ1276421

Daniel Nolan

Publication date: 27 January 1999

Published in: Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1039540769

zbMATH Keywords

possible worldssemanticsreasoning with impossible worlds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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