Philosophy
- Possible world, a construct in metaphysics to bring rigor to talk of logical possibility
- Modal realism, an account of possible worlds according to which they are all just as real as the actual world
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“A life-worshippers philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death ... and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that Gods in his heaven and alls right with the world.”
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“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
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