Alvin Plantinga - What are Possible Worlds?

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‘Possible worlds’ are all the ways in which a world can be. A ‘world’ is a complete state of cosmic affairs: all the infinite variations of innumerable parts and their myriad relationships. Possible world’s have become an indispensable philosophical technique for exploring modalities—issues of possibility and necessity that are essential for examining God.

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Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.

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