Full Idea
A world is usually taken to be a fully determinate way that things could have been; but then one might seriously wonder whether anyone is capable of 'considering' such a thing at all.
Gist of Idea
If a world is a fully determinate way things could have been, can anyone consider such a thing?
Source
Ian Rumfitt (Logical Necessity [2010], §4)
Book Reference
'Modality', ed/tr. Hale,B/Hoffman,A [OUP 2010], p.60
A Reaction
This has always worried me. If I say 'maybe my coat is in the car', I would hate to think that I had to be contemplating some entire possible world (including all the implications of my coat not being on the hat stand).