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What are Possible Worlds? – Gentleman Thinker

Philosophy Tube | March 15, 2026



What are possible worlds, and how do they factor into philosophy and our understanding of language? Let the Gentleman Thinker explain!
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  7. @GentleScreams

    March 15, 2026 at 7:44 pm

    Physics is currently under the impression that all superimposed states and times exists equally. In other words, potentiality and actuality are actually the same thing at base level.

  16. @Hecatonicosachoron

    March 15, 2026 at 7:44 pm

    Is it true that impossible worlds necessitate contradictions? So everything else is a possible world? (I still think of them in terms of all conbinations of 'truth values' for the atomic propositions and the entire proposition in a synthetic statement)

  19. @raduarisanu6421

    March 15, 2026 at 7:44 pm

    There is no possible existence of other world.  The world could not be different in any way then it is today.
    1.) For the meteor not to struck Earth, it had to had another course. But what could determent other course for the meteor ?? Maybe a star, or another planet should have had a different mass, but how could that be possible ? Well…. <<< We KNOW !!! that all the mass of the universe is constant. It can't be 1 gram more or less. Everything is just changing. >>> So from where a planet / star cold be bigger ??
    2.) For Henri V to be killed at Agincourt, the King of France should have been cruel (for example). But we hasn't (because of reasons). And thous reasons are existing because of other reasons, and so on….  If the King of France was in anyway different, the battle of Agincourt might as well not exist (and think about the man who wouldn't lost their lives there). But there is no reason for the King of France to be different. He is how he is because of his health, education, people he met, etc, etc….    So here we go. There is not possible for us to be different then how we are. There is not possible for the world to be different. I hope you get my point.

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