Question
In the preface to On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis stated a “lack of talent and training” to discuss this philosopher’s views on possible worlds. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this philosopher satirized as Dr. Pangloss in Candide, which attacked his claim that “we live in the best of all possible worlds.”
ANSWER: Gottfried Leibniz
[10m] In On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis described his position on possible worlds as realism described by this adjective. A diamond-shaped operator is used to denote possibility in a form of logic described by this adjective.
ANSWER: modal [accept modal realism or modal logic]
[10h] In modal logic, these relations hold between possible worlds. If world A has this relation to world B, then a true proposition in world B must be possible in world A.
ANSWER: accessibility relation [accept word forms like accessible]
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Iowa | Penn State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio | Case Western | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |