Why Possible Worlds Aren't

Review of Metaphysics 50 (1):63 - 77 (1996)
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Abstract

I rest this unusual claim on the ground of a metaphysics that is at odds with the metaphysical viewpoint implied in the theories of possible worlds. I suggest a different and, I think, superior way of conceiving the world, experience, and what we mean by possibility.

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