Author:
Mckay Thomas,Van Inwagen Peter
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Reference3 articles.
1. David Lewis,Counterfactuals, Harvard, 1973,passim.
2. Nute, ‘Counterfactuals and the Similarity of Words’ [sic],The Journal of Philosophy LXXII 21, (1975), 773–778. Fine, critical notice ofCounterfactuals, Mind LXXXIV (n.s.), (1975), 451–458. Creary and Hill, review ofCounterfactuals, Philosophy of Science XLIII 3, (1975), 341–344. We wish to thank David Lewis for calling our attention to the fact that the ‘disjunctive antecedents’ problem was raised in the cited reviews.
3. For a demonstration thatS * is true on the Lewis proposal, see Nute,op. cit., p. 778, APPENDIX. In general, ifA > C is true, and if there is a world at whichA is true that is more like the actual world than is any world at whichB is true, then (A vB) >C will be true on the Lewis proposal, whether or notB > ~ C is true and whether or notB > C is true.
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