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Showing posts with label Lewis. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

A problem for probabilistic best systems accounts of laws

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Suppose that we live in a Humean universe and the universe contains an extremely large collection of coins scattered on a flat surface. Stat...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

A dilemma for best-systems accounts of laws

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Here is a dilemma for best-systems accounts of laws. Either: law-based scientific explanations invoke the lawlike generalization itself a...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Merging Lewisian worlds

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According to Lewis, any pair (or, more generally, plurality) of concrete (he doesn't even restrict it this way) of objects ha...
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