Lewis on ‘Might’ and ‘Would’ Counterfactual Conditionals
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Philosophy
- Vol. 24 (3), 413-418
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1994.10717377
Abstract
Letting denote ‘would’ counterfactual conditionals like (A) If I had looked in my pocket, I would have found a penny and letting denote ‘might’ counterfactual conditionals like (B) If I had looked in my pocket, I might have found a penny, David Lewis’s thesis (LT) regarding the connection between these two types of conditionals is thatKeywords
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