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Imagining irreality : a study of unreal possibilities / Nicholas Rescher.
- Title
- Imagining irreality : a study of unreal possibilities / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 298 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fact and fiction -- Real things -- Possibilities and merely possible individuals -- Against reifying fictional objects -- Talk about nonexistents : then and now -- Merely possible worlds? -- A conceptualistic ontology of possibility -- Possible worlds and modality -- Counterfactual conditionals -- Historical counterfactuals -- The vagaries of fiction.
- ISBN
- 0812695658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0812695119 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003016158
- OCLC
- 52720647
- SCSB-10522658
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library