The Problem of Plurality of the World in Cosmology and Philosophy

der 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2:906-910 (1983)
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The hypothesis of the plurality of the Metagalaxies is very problematic. But from the philosophical point of view the manyfold of the worlds may exist with different phenomena, laws of nature and space-time relations. Leibniz believes that the only world with maximum quantity of phenomena and essences comes to existence from the manyfold of all logically possible worlds. But Leibniz's criterium can't solve the problem in a unique way: the worlds from some submanyfold of all possible worlds may be preferable in one and the same degree. All these worlds exist in reality.

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