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The worlds of possibility: modal realism and the semantics of modal logic
New York: Oxford University Press (1998)
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A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.
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