Sylvan's Box: A Short Story and Ten Morals

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38 (4):573-582 (1997)
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The paper contains a short story which is inconsistent, essentially so, but perfectly intelligible. The existence of such a story is used to establish various views about truth in fiction and impossible worlds

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Graham Priest
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Beyond possible worlds.Takashi Yagisawa - 1988 - Philosophical Studies 53 (2):175 - 204.
What is a non-normal world?Graham Priest - 1992 - Logique Et Analyse 35:291-302.
A relevant theory of conditionals.Edwin D. Mares & André Fuhrmann - 1995 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 24 (6):645 - 665.

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