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possible world
noun
- logic (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
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In what possible world would further discussion of that knowledge, however embarrassing, be a threat to the U.S.?
The first big religious idea I ever got hold of was that this is the best possible world God could have created—because it's free.
So that we have not dwelt here upon the life-giving aspect of a possible world state, but only on its life-saving aspects.
The Possible World, he said, then shook his head and held up his finger.
Its qualities and conveniences make it the only possible world game.
She had given no thought to the question whether this is the best or worst possible world.
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