Remarks on counterpossibles

DOI10.1007/s11229-012-0196-6zbMath1284.03035OpenAlexW2041907644MaRDI QIDQ2442127

Berit Brogaard, Joe Salerno

Publication date: 31 March 2014

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0196-6

zbMATH Keywords

counterfactualsindicative conditionalssubjunctive conditionalsimpossible worldsessential propertiesaccessibility relationlimit assumptioncontingent counterpossiblesLewis semanticsnon-trivial counterpossibles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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