Ceteris paribus logic in counterfactual reasoning
The semantics for counterfactuals due to David Lewis has been challenged on the basis of unlikely, or impossible, events. Such events may skew a given similarity order in favour of those possible worlds which exhibit them. By updating the relational structure of a model according to a ceteris paribu...
Main Authors: | Patrick Girard, Marcus Anthony Triplett |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Publishing Association
2016-06-01
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Series: | Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science |
Online Access: | http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07522v1 |
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