Modal realism
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Modal realism is the view propounded by David Kellogg Lewis that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world. It is based on the following tenets: possible worlds exist; possible worlds are not different in kind from the actual world; possible worlds are irreducible entities; the term actual in actual world is indexical, i.e. any subject can declare their world to be the actual one, much as they label the place they are "here" and the time they are "now".
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See also
- Counterpart theory
- Impossible world
- Linguistic modality
- Mathematical universe hypothesis
- Multiverse
- Brane cosmology
- J. B. Priestley's Time Plays
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