Laws, modalities and counterfactuals

Synthese 35 (2):191-229 (1977)
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Counterfactuals.David K. Lewis - 1973 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.Nelson Goodman - 1965 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Elements of symbolic logic.Hans Reichenbach - 1947 - London: Dover Publications.
Philosophy of natural science.Carl Gustav Hempel - 1966 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.
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