CounterfactualsISBN: 978-0-631-22495-2
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168 pages
January 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.
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