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Full Idea
One motivation for dialetheism is the view that there are impossible worlds.
Clarification
'dialetheism' says a proposition might be both true and false
Gist of Idea
Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.3)
Book Ref
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.368
16132 | On mountains or in worlds, reporting contradictions is contradictory, so no such truths can be reported [Lewis] |
16133 | Possible worlds can contain contradictions if such worlds are seen as fictions [Lewis] |
6079 | If 'possible' is explained as quantification across worlds, there must be possible worlds [McGinn] |
14674 | Impossible worlds are also ways for things to be [Salmon,N] |
14682 | Denial of impossible worlds involves two different confusions [Salmon,N] |
14687 | Without impossible worlds, how things might have been is the only way for things to be [Salmon,N] |
13749 | Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism [Schaffer,J] |
18748 | Epistemic logic introduced impossible worlds [Horsten/Pettigrew] |