Some articles on worlds, actual world, world, actual:
... One of the applications of 'possible worlds' semantics and the 'accessibility relation' is to physics ... for physics (TSN) is nomologically necessary means that is true at all possible worlds that are nomologically accessible from the actual world ... In other words, is true at all possible worlds that obey the physical laws of the actual world ...
... point of view, such as Adams', possible worlds are nothing more than fictions created within the actual world ... Possible worlds are mere descriptions of ways this world (the actual one) might have been, and nothing else ... device to use with modal logic as it helps our modal reasoning to imagine ways the world might have been ...
... Modal realism is the view, notably propounded by David Kellogg Lewis, that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world ... It is based on the following tenets possible worlds exist possible worlds are not different in kind from the actual world possible worlds are irreducible ... any subject can declare their world to be the actual one, much as they label the place they are "here" and the time they are "now" ...
... philosopher Nelson Goodman examines the broader question of how we create imaginary worlds and categorizes our “Ways of Worldmaking” (the title of his book on this topic) into composition/d ... less with intention and more with the various ways that fictional worlds are related to the actual world outside the text ... that establishes the extent to which fictional worlds are similar to or different from the actual world in which we live ...
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or actual:
“Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man’s instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man’s instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-ordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized?... A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)