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The concept of non-standard possible worlds introduced by N. Rescher and R. Brandom in their book The Logic of Inconsistency. A Study in Non-standard Possible-World Semantics and Ontology l is a generalisation of the concept of “standard” possible worlds. A non-standard possible world (in short: n-world), in contrast to a standard possible world (in short: p-world), can be inconsistent and incomplete. An n-world is inconsistent if for some proposition A, both A and ⌝A obtain in the world; an n-world is incomplete if for some proposition A neither A nor ⌝A obtain in the world.2
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Paśniczek, J. (1994). Non-Standard Possible Worlds, Generalised Quantifiers, and Modal Logic. In: Woleński, J. (eds) Philosophical Logic in Poland. Synthese Library, vol 228. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8273-5_12
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