The Analysis of Possibility and the Extent of Possibility

Dialectica 67 (2):183-200 (2013)
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Abstract

In section 1 I motivate and execute the presentation of a well-defined Lewisian conception of analysis and of what it would be to analyse modality successfully. That conception is then put to two applications. In section 2 various inadequacies are exposed in a (recently popular) separatist approach to the understanding and/or evaluation of Lewis's analysis of modality. Section 3 provides a defence against a resilient argument for the claim that Lewis's analysis of modality cannot be fully reductive while also dealing adequately with alien possibility.

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An Argument for the Identity Theory.David K. Lewis - 1966 - Journal of Philosophy 63 (1):17-25.
How to define theoretical terms.David Lewis - 1970 - Journal of Philosophy 67 (13):427-446.

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