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Counterfactuals

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Paperback, 168 blz. | Engels
John Wiley & Sons | e druk, 2000
ISBN13: 9780631224259
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Counterfactuals is David Lewis′ forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.

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ISBN13:9780631224259
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:168

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Preface.
<p>Acknowledgements.</p>
<p>1. An Analysis of Counterfactuals.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Strict Conditionals.</p>
<p>Variably Strict Conditionals.</p>
<p>The Limit Assumption.</p>
<p>′Might′ Counterfactuals and Outer Modalities.</p>
<p>Impossible Antecedents.</p>
<p>True Antecedents.</p>
<p>Counterfactual Fallacies.</p>
<p>Potentialities.</p>
<p>2. Reformulations.</p>
<p>Multiple Modalities.</p>
<p>Propositional Quantifiers.</p>
<p>Comparative Similarity.</p>
<p>Similarity Measures.</p>
<p>Comparative Possibility.</p>
<p>Cotenability.</p>
<p>Selection Functions.</p>
<p>The Selection Operator.</p>
<p>3. Comparisons.</p>
<p>The Metalinguistic Theory: Implicit Premisis.</p>
<p>The Metalinguistic Theory: Factual Premises.</p>
<p>The Metalinguistic Theory: Laws of Nature.</p>
<p>Stalnaker′s Theory.</p>
<p>4. Foundations.</p>
<p>Possible Worlds.</p>
<p>Similarity.</p>
<p>5. Analogies.</p>
<p>Conditional Obligation.</p>
<p>′When Next′ and ′When Last′.</p>
<p>Contextually Definite Descriptions.</p>
<p>6. Logics.</p>
<p>Completeness Results.</p>
<p>Decidability Results.</p>
<p>Derived Modal Logics.</p>
<p>Appendix: Related Writings by David Lewis.</p>
<p>Index.</p>

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