Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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V 10
Comparative possibility/"rather true"/Lewis: Notation A ‹ B: A is more true than B gdw. an A-world is closer to i than any B-world.
>Similarity metrics.
V 253
E.g. Heat/Lewis: could have turned out to be something other than molecular motion. (Kripke ditto)
>Necessity a posteriori.
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Schwarz I 59/60
Possibility/possible world/Lewis/Black: not all possibilities are possible worlds. For example, when I learn that it is 5 p.m., I do not know anything about the world.
The possibilities I can exclude are not other possible worlds where it is 4 p.m. Present is not distinguished.
>Actuality/Lewis, >Information/Lewis.
Example twin earth: one of them will be blown up tomorrow: possibility: that I am on one or the other, but these are not two possible worlds. - Detailed knowledge does not help, because both possible worlds are the same!
>Twin earth.
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Schwarz I 184
Metaphysically possible/Lewis/Schwarz: For example, traveling at the speed of superlight - yet when I said yesterday that it were impossible, I said something true.
>Context dependence.

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