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This is an attempt to reason about why our world is the way it is and what we can reasonably believe about it.  Many people believe that the world is designed and created. created and that it's unreasonable to believe that any world can exist without being created, and I agree with them.  However, this belief is these beliefs are  not shared by everyone, so it's worth thinking about what this means. If the world is created, then it's likely to be the way it is because its Creator\footnote{Not everybody that believes that the world is created thinks that God created it. Still, I hope that they would agree that naming the creator of this world as \ghilimele{the Creator} is reasonable.} wanted it to have certain properties. In order to understand why our world works the way it does, one would need to understand the intent of its Creator. While that is interesting in itself, I will not try to pursue it here. Let us consider the other case. First, there are people that think it's unreasonable to believe that a world can exists without being created [TODO: insert reason here, something like "simply because the idea is outrageous"], and I agree with them. However, case:  for most of  this article, let us assume that our world was not designed and created. If that's true then there may be other worlds\footnote{We don't have any proof for the existence of other worlds, but one could expect them to exist for the same reason that ours exists. If ours has no reason at all for existing, which is likely if it is not created, then it's likely that other worlds would also not need any reason for existing and would simply be. However, for this paper it does not matter if there are other worlds or not and probably we wouldn't be able to tell if other worlds exist or not.}. Even if there are no other worlds, ours could have been different. We will denote by \definitie{possible worlds} these other worlds that either are or could have been. \section{Modelling possible worlds}