Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 55, 2018

Philosophy of Logic

Jean-Yves Beziau
Pages 5-9

Possible Worlds: A Fashionable Nonsense?

In this paper we discuss the notion of “possible worlds” contrasting a philosophical idea due to Malebranche with a mathematical concept of modern logic due to Kripke from which many pseudo-philosophical discussions have arisen.