A Preliminary Study on Concept and Types of Metaverse : Focusing on the Possible World Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 57-81
Author(s):  
HyunJung Yun ◽  
Jin Lee ◽  
HyeYoung Yun
Keyword(s):  
Possible World ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Preliminary Study

scholarly journals Mathematical Proof on the Existential Necessity of the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Hyeon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Mathematical Proof ◽  
Multiple Impacts ◽  
Possible World ◽  
The World ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Null Set

The "best of all possible worlds" theory (hereinafter the "possible world theory") was presented by Leibniz many centuries ago, and provided an opportunity for metaphysics to understand the ontological meaning of the world in an in-depth way. Furthermore, the theory has multiple impacts on the multiverse theory of modern physics. However, considering the ontological questions of the world solely on linguistics logic leads to basing the possible world theory or the multiverse theory on relatively uncertain inferential reasons. In this study, symbolic logic was used to consider the possible world theory on a more solid foundation. The entire world was made into oneness, and tracking the existential process at the beginning of the world, realized the existential necessity of the world, even though the initial causal point of the world was assumed to be completely void (null set). The existential system in this study, was generalized without specific elements, apart from existence and non-existence. It was discovered that existential possibility and existential necessity are logically equivalent.

The Cognitive Process of Parable: John Ruskin, William Morris and the Oriental Lure of the Forbidden

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-102
Author(s):  
Eleonora Sasso
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Material Life ◽  
Space Analysis ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Narrative Poems ◽  
Earthly Paradise

This chapter examines the pervasive influence of Arabian marvel tales on Ruskin’s The King of the Golden River and Sesame and Lilies (1865), as well as on Morris’s The Earthly Paradise. More similarly to Marx’s ideological Orientalism, Ruskin and Morris sympathise with people’s misery, with their material life and the Arab townsfolk, and thereby with the criminal underworld. Ruskin’s ideological Orientalism is particularly evident in his lectures and autobiography whose rhetorical language may be analysed through possible world theory, Fauconnier’s mental space analysis and Oatley and Johnson-Laird’s cognitive theory of emotions (1987). By projecting such Oriental conceptual metaphors as East is poverty and East is corruption, Ruskin aims at sensitising his readers to the perils of imperialism. Morris’s fascination with the East is first and foremost connected with the Byzantine decorative arts and carpet-making. As founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), he promoted a campaign against the restoration of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, the paramount example of Arab influence on Venetian architecture. His connection with the East can be better understood, however, by investigating the Oriental love scenarios in The Earthly Paradise, whose narrative poems seem to restructure the Arabian tales of the ‘Forbidden Chamber’ cycle.

MUNDOS POSIBLES DE LO FANTÁSTICO. UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA ESTRUCTURA DE MUNDO

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Eva ARIZA TRINIDAD
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Alternative Definition ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Possible World ◽  
World Theory ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Definition Of

Resumen: La teoría de los mundos posibles que plantean Lubomir Doležel, Umberto Eco y Thomas Pavel se aplica en esta propuesta a lo fantástico para concretar los rasgos ontológicos, cualitativos, cuantitativos y de homogeneidad / heterogeneidad que configuran la macroestructura de este tipo de mundos; un análisis que posibilita diferenciar este territorio ficcional de otros con que suele confundirse, como lo maravilloso y la ciencia ficción. Así, se proporciona una definición de lo fantástico, alternativa a las actuales, que contempla las relaciones inter-mundos en que se fundamenta su especificidad ficcional.Abstract: In this paper, possible-world theory, as advanced by Lubomir Doležel, Umberto Eco and Thomas Pavel, has been applied to the fantastic in order to characterise its macrostructure through the identification of its defining features, namely, its ontological, qualitative, quantitative and homogeneity / heterogeneity traits. This analysis makes it possible to differentiate the fantastic from other fictional territories with which it is usually mistaken, such as the marvellous and science-fiction. Thus, an alternative definition of the fantastic is given by considering the interworld relations in which its fictional specificity lies.

Modality and Degrees of Truth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Simons
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Objective Probability ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Truth Values ◽  
World Theory

This chapter explores a third way in construing modality—rejecting both linguistic accounts and the polycosmism of possible world theory—in the work of Alexis Meinong and Jan Łukasiewicz. Some of Meinong’s non-existent objects are incomplete, so in 1915 he accounts for objective probability (he says possibility) with an idea of degrees of truth: the proposition ‘My draw of a card from the pack tomorrow will be a king’ is neither simply wholly true nor wholly false, regardless of the draw I will actually make tomorrow, but has a degree of truth corresponding to the proportion of kings in a pack, between 0 and 1. Łukasiewicz, inventor of fuzzy logic, visited Meinong in Graz, and in 1913 published his own work on probability, suggesting some propositions are indefinite and have truth values between and 0 and 1; then in 1917 he began to extend this to definite propositions about future contingencies.

scholarly journals Liberal Failure

Anafora ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-164
Author(s):  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin ◽  
Sara Saei Dibavar
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Possible World ◽  
World Theory ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Counterfactual State ◽  
The Human Condition ◽  
Rabbit Tetralogy

John Updike’s Rabbit, Run addresses the human condition under the reign of capital in the context of a society in transition toward a neoliberal state. By depicting a protagonist preoccupied with desire and consciousness through recounting his immediate experiences, the narrative delineates the confusion inherent in the capitalistic state for the protagonist in search of a way out toward self-actualization. Through the application of possible world theory, it is argued that the imbalance between Rabbit’s counterfactual possible worlds and his actual world accounts for the failure he experiences in his quest. As such, the possible worlds’ disequilibrium, we argue, ultimately leads to Rabbit’s bitter failure in his search; too many possible worlds in their counterfactual state produce a kind of counter-reality where there are too many fantasy/wish worlds, but few obligation worlds, a situation that leads to all the inevitable consequences we witness at the end of Book One of the Rabbit tetralogy.

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