Centered world

{{Short description|Metaphysical concept}}

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A centered world, according to David Kellogg Lewis, consists of (1) a possible world, (2) an agent in that world, and (3) a time in that world.{{cite journal|last=Lewis|first=David|title=Attitudes De Dicto and De Se|journal=The Philosophical Review|date=October 1979|volume=88|issue=4|pages=513–543|doi=10.2307/2184843|jstor=2184843 }} The concept of centered worlds has epistemic as well as metaphysical uses;{{cite journal|last=Liao|first=Shen-yi|title=What Are Centered Worlds?|journal=The Philosophical Quarterly|date=April 2012|volume=62|issue=247|pages=294–316|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00042.x|doi-access=free}} for the latter, the three components of a centered world have connections to theories such as actualism, solipsism (especially egocentric presentism and perspectival realism), and presentism, respectively.