Possible worlds: an introduction to logic and its philosophy

Oxford: Blackwell. Edited by Norman Swartz (1979)
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object an item which does not have a position in space and time but which exists. (Philosophers have nominated such things as numbers, sets, and propositions to this category. The need to posit such entities has been discussed and disputed for at least 2400 years.)

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BC51.B64x 1979b

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0631161309   091514459X   9780631161301

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