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A difficulty for the possible worlds analysis of counterfactuals
Synthese 189 (1):29-57 (2012)
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I present a puzzle concerning counterfactual reasoning and argue that it should be solved by giving up the principle of substitution for logical equivalentsAuthor's Profile
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A Theory of Conditionals.Robert Stalnaker - 1968 - In Nicholas Rescher (ed.), Studies in Logical Theory. Oxford,: Blackwell. pp. 98-112.
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