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		<description><![CDATA[Everything is getting better. Or so the numbers tell us. Such, from quick perusal, seems to be the burden of a number of &#8216;optimistic&#8217; books that have come out in the last few years by authors like Matt Ridley, Steve Pinker and Hans, Ola and Anna Rosling. And there are some seriously impressive facts optimists [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Possibility</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophers often distinguish several kinds of possibility: physical, logical, metaphysical. One can think of a kind of possibility as a restriction on the set of possible worlds that the speaker is prepared to consider &#8211; the physically possible, for instance, is what is found in some possible worlds that observe the existing laws of physics [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lexicon: an introduction</title>
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