On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise Semantics
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On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise Semantics
In his original semantics for counterfactuals, David Lewis presupposed that the ordering of worlds relevant to the evaluation of a counterfactual admitted no incomparability between worlds. He later came to abandon this assumption. But the approach to incomparability he endorsed makes counterintuitive predictions about a class of examples circumscribed in this paper. e same underlying problem ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Philosophical Logic
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-3611,1573-0433
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-010-9157-z