Roache’s Argument against the Cohabitation View

Philosophia 39 (2):309-310 (2011)
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Rebecca Roache’s recent critique of David Lewis’s cohabitation view assumes that a person cannot be properly concerned about something that rules out that she ever exists. In this brief response, I argue against this assumption

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