This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis' most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis' work on philosophical logic from the past twenty-five years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalized languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the differences between analog and digital representation, and questions arising from the construction of ambitious formalized philosophical systems.
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This is the first of a three-volume collection of David Lewis's most recent papers in all the areas to which he has made significant contributions. This first volume is devoted to Lewis's work on philosophical logic from the last 25 years. The topics covered include: deploying the methods of formal semantics from artificial formalized languages to natural languages, model-theoretic investigations of intensional logic, contradiction, relevance, the differences between analog and digital representation, and questions arising from the construction of ambitious formalized philosophical systems.
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arithmetical output, partial supervenience, maximal connected parts, singleton function, urn frequency, primitive magnitudes, unofficial axioms, bypass distance, larger subject matter, premise semantics, least subject matter, similarity circle, modified sentence, genuine subject matter, ordering semantics, mixed fusions, ordering frame, deontic conditionals, converse entailment, plural quantification, relevant logic, propositional values, evidential relevance, admissible cases, experiential proposition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Limit Assumption, Entailment Principle, First Thesis, David Lewis, Division Thesis, Robert Stalnaker, Unrestricted Composition, Equivalence Principle, Nelson Goodman, Harvard University Press, Lennart Aqvist, New York, Second Thesis, Angelika Kratzer, Cambridge University Press, David Kaplan, Fusion Thesis, Philosophical Studies, Priority Thesis, The Philosophical Review, Academic Press, Bas van Fraassen, Filosofiska Studier, Philosophical Papers, Reidel Publishing Company New!
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arithmetical output, partial supervenience, maximal connected parts, singleton function, urn frequency, primitive magnitudes, unofficial axioms, bypass distance, larger subject matter, premise semantics, least subject matter, similarity circle, modified sentence, genuine subject matter, ordering semantics, mixed fusions, ordering frame, deontic conditionals, converse entailment, plural quantification, relevant logic, propositional values, evidential relevance, admissible cases, experiential proposition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Limit Assumption, Entailment Principle, First Thesis, David Lewis, Division Thesis, Robert Stalnaker, Unrestricted Composition, Equivalence Principle, Nelson Goodman, Harvard University Press, Lennart Aqvist, New York, Second Thesis, Angelika Kratzer, Cambridge University Press, David Kaplan, Fusion Thesis, Philosophical Studies, Priority Thesis, The Philosophical Review, Academic Press, Bas van Fraassen, Filosofiska Studier, Philosophical Papers, Reidel Publishing Company New!
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- The Structure of Appearance (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by Nelson Goodman in Front Matter, page 181, and page 202
- Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred J. Ayer on page 125, and page 156
- Contemporary Philosophy in Scandinavia by Raymond E. Olson on page 56
- Montague Grammar by D. Partee on page 44
- Philosophical Logic (Synthese Library) by J.W. Davis on page 56
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- Philosophical Perspectives, Language and Philosophical Linguistics (Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume) (Volume 17) by John Hawthorne on page 50, page 194, and page 244
- The Law of Non-Contradiction by Graham Priest on page 175, and page 176
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Peter Machamer on page 170
- On Clear and Confused Ideas: An Essay about Substance Concepts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Ruth Garrett Millikan in Front Matter
- Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Michael Smith in Front Matter
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