The Future Similarity Objection Revisited
نویسنده
چکیده
David Lewis has long defended an analysis of counterfactuals in terms of comparative similarity of possible worlds.1 According to Lewis, a counterfactual of the form ̳If it were the case that A, then it would be that C‘ is (non-vacuously) true if and only if some world where A and C are both true is more similar to the actual world than any world where A is true and C is false. The purpose of this paper is to reevaluate Lewis‘s response to one of the oldest and most familiar objections to this proposal, the future similarity objection.2
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 150 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006