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Philosophy

The Logic of Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds

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David Lewis's semantics uses a 'closeness' ordering of possible worlds, where worlds that differ less from ours (e.g., in laws of physics) are considered more relevant when evaluating counterfactuals.

Why this is interesting

We say 'If I had left earlier, I would have caught the train.' But the past is fixed—so what makes that statement true or false? How can we judge a world that never happened?