38 - Graham Priest: The Metaphysics of Nothingness
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The Impossible Worlds of Imagination
I've employed them in a couple of areas. One is to do with intentionality and fit. If you believe in a world's analysis of fiction, as did David Lewis, for example, then because they're impossible stories, even logically impossible stories, you're going to have to believe that there are impossible worlds. Another application is in counterfactuals. And I guess those are two applications of impossible worlds of maybe three kinds of events that you can't that I've made in my words. We raised about impossible situations frequently. So let's say how have impossible worlds been relevant to your work? I think you've written about how they relate to imagination.
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