Lewis on Implication

Lewis on Implication

Lewis meets Brouwer: constructive strict implication

C. I. Lewis invented modern modal logic as a theory of “strict implication” J. Over the classical propositional calculus one can as well work with the unary box connective, which became the modal primitive ever since. Over the intuitionistic propositional calculus, however, the strict implication has greater expressive power than 2 and allows to make distinctions invisible in the ordinary synta...

turkish-israeli relations and their implication on iranian national security

this dissertation has six chapter and tree appendices. chapter 1 introduces the thesis proposal including description of problem, key questions, hypothesis, backgrounds and review of literature, research objectives, methodology and theoretical concepts (key terms) taken the literature and facilitate an understanding of national security, national interest and turkish- israeli relations concepts...

Lewis on Set Theory

henceforth PC) undertakes a fundamental re-examination of the relationship between merelogy, the general theory of parts, and set theory, the general theory of collections. He assumes a certain minimum background familiarity with both subjects, and limitations of space make the same assumption inevitable in the present account. Varzi (2011) is recommended as a clear, concise survey of mereology...

Lewis on Knowledge Ascriptions

David Lewis’s primary contribution to the theory of knowledge is his account of knowledge ascription, which integrates an elegant version of relevant alternatives theory with a detailed version of contextualism. His account is prefigured in his discussion of accommodation in “Scorekeeping in a Language Game” (1979), and forms the central topic of his “Elusive Knowledge” (1996). I will review hi...