Sentence examples for sets of worlds from inspiring English sources

The semantics I defend constitutes a dramatic alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it assigns sets of probability measures rather than sets of worlds as sentential semantic values.

This maps justification terms and formulas to sets of worlds.

Suppose that all non-empty sets of worlds are facts.

There is a view according to which propositions are sets of worlds.

\(\mathcal{V}\) maps propositional letters to sets of worlds, as usual.

This suggests we interpret propositional quantification in terms of quantification over sets of worlds in $W$.

Two magnanimous donors sent two entire sets of World Book Encyclopedia.

A planning language modeled by the sets of world-plan pairs would serve very well.

(Searle 1962) Gibbard's sets of world-norm pairs treated as the contents of moral sentences, looks to allow non-cognitivists to make the relevant distinctions (Dreier 1998).

A model is defined as consisting of a set of worlds together with a value assignment of the kind just described.

I read the books and the plays as a sort of thought experiment: this is, after all, an alternative world, or set of worlds.