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Author Lewis, David K. (David Kellogg), 1941-2001.

Title On the plurality of worlds / David Lewis
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1986

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Description ix, 276 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Summary This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true
Analysis Existence
Existence - Philosophical perspectives
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 264-270
Subject Concrete (Philosophy)
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Plurality of worlds.
Realism.
LC no. 85015099
ISBN 0631139931 (U.S.)
063113994X (U.S. : pbk.)