The Possible and the actual: readings in the metaphysics of modality

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Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (1979)
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Preface In these days, an anthology on the topic of possible worlds hardly needs justification. No issue has given rise to as much literature in the past ...

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The trouble with possible worlds.William G. Lycan
Identity through possible worlds: Some questions.  (pages 1-8)Roderick M. Chisholm
Transworld Heir Lines.  (pages 88-109)David Kaplan
Theories of Actuality.  (pages 190)Robert Merrihew Adams

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