Tag: Knowledge

The best of all possible worlds? When I studied philosophy in Heidelberg, I read about the logic of possible worlds. Everything possible was also real, only not accessible to me at the moment. This was an answer to a fundamental problem in propositional logic, namely that an “if…, then” sentence—with a false premise and a true conclusion—was true as a whole. In the Western Enlightenment, we find in Leibniz the assumption that we live in the best of all possible…