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Impossible Worlds Semantics

Impossible Worlds Semantics is a formal semantic framework in epistemic logic that extends possible worlds semantics by introducing logically inconsistent or impossible worlds to differentiate and model non-trivial reasoning about impossibility, contradiction, and non-classical knowledge or belief.

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3.5K

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63

Authors

55

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

7

Variants

Impossible World Semantics

Parents

Publications

57

Impossible Worlds: A Modest Approach

Daniel Nolan · Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic · 1997 · 575 citations · Full text

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Impossible possible worlds vindicated

Jaakko Hintikka · Journal of Philosophical Logic · 1975 · 344 citations

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Nonmonotonic reasoning, conditional objects and possibility theory

Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade · Artificial Intelligence · 1997 · 225 citations

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Sylvan's Box: A Short Story and Ten Morals

Graham Priest · Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic · 1997 · 172 citations · Full text

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A Response to Fodor and Lepore, “Impossible Words?”

Ken Hale, Samuel Jay Keyser · Linguistic Inquiry · 1999 · 102 citations

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Authors

63

  1. FB
    Francesco Berto

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    4 publications · 230 citations

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  2. NS
    Nathan Salmón

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    3 publications · 59 citations

    3

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  3. KT
    Koji Tanaka

    Kyoto University, Japan

    2 publications · 32 citations

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  4. DN
    Daniel Nolan

    Australian National University, Australia

    2 publications · 645 citations

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  5. JC
    Jens Christian Bjerring

    Aarhus University, Denmark

    2 publications · 101 citations

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Institutions

55

  1. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    178 citations

  2. Aarhus University

    Aarhus, Denmark

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    101 citations

  3. École Normale Supérieure

    Bujumbura, Burundi

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    89 citations

  4. École Normale Supérieure - PSL

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    89 citations

  5. King's College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

  6. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    92 citations

  7. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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Venues

  1. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

    7 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Noûs

    4 publications · 140 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of Philosophical Logic

    3 publications · 452 citations

    3

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  4. The Philosophical Quarterly

    3 publications · 123 citations

    3

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  5. Analysis

    3 publications · 68 citations

    3

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