possible world
noun
logic (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
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Which of the following animal names traces its immediate origin to Portuguese?
Words nearby possible world
possessive pronoun, possessory, posset, possibility, possible, possible world, possibly, possibly extinct, possibly extinct in the wild, possie, POSSLQ
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