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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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Acknowledgements.
1. An Analysis of Counterfactuals.
Introduction.
Strict Conditionals.
Variably Strict Conditionals.
The Limit Assumption.
'Might' Counterfactuals and Outer Modalities.
Impossible Antecedents.
True Antecedents.
Counterfactual Fallacies.
Potentialities.
2. Reformulations.
Multiple Modalities.
Propositional Quantifiers.
Comparative Similarity.
Similarity Measures.
Comparative Possibility.
Cotenability.
Selection Functions.
The Selection Operator.
3. Comparisons.
The Metalinguistic Theory: Implicit Premisis.
The Metalinguistic Theory: Factual Premises.
The Metalinguistic Theory: Laws of Nature.
Stalnaker's Theory.
4. Foundations.
Possible Worlds.
Similarity.
5. Analogies.
Conditional Obligation.
'When Next' and 'When Last'.
Contextually Definite Descriptions.
6. Logics.
Completeness Results.
Decidability Results.
Derived Modal Logics.
Appendix: Related Writings by David Lewis.
Index.
ISBN: 9781118696415
ISBN-10: 1118696417
Published: 28th May 2013
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 168
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Wiley
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1

























