Counterfactuals

Malden, Mass.: Blackwell (1973)
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Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds and his theory of laws of nature.

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1987, 2001, 2013

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BC199.C66.L48 2001

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0674175417   9780631224259   9780631224952   9781118696415   0631224254   0674175409   0631124977   9780674175419   0631224955   1118696417   0631143807

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10.2307/2273738
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David K. Lewis
PhD: Harvard University; Last affiliation: Princeton University

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