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On the Plurality of Worlds

Overview

On the Plurality of Worlds (1986) is a book by the philosopher David Lewis that defends the thesis of modal realism. "The thesis states that the world we are part of is but one of a plurality of worlds," as he writes in the preface, "and that we who inhabit this world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds." It is not to be confused with cosmic pluralism.

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Philosophers who discussed On the Plurality of Worlds

• David Lewis (philosopher)
• Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Related ideas

• Philosophy
• Plural
• If and only if
• Modal realism
• Ontology
• Set theory
• Modal logic
• David Lewis (philosopher)
• Quantifier (logic)
• Conditional sentence
• Possible world

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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