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Full Idea
If worlds were like stories or story-tellers, there would indeed be room for worlds according to which contradictions are true.
Gist of Idea
Possible worlds can contain contradictions if such worlds are seen as fictions
Source
David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 1.2 n3)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'On the Plurality of Worlds' [Blackwell 2001], p.7
A Reaction
Most existing fictions contain tiny contradictions, but we might ask whether that thereby disqualifies them from depicting genuinely 'possible' worlds.
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| 14682 | Denial of impossible worlds involves two different confusions [Salmon,N] |
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| 13749 | Belief in impossible worlds may require dialetheism [Schaffer,J] |
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