A graded semantics for counterfactuals

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Alternative codes found
RIV/67985807:_____/21:00545760
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03320-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03320-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03320-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-021-03320-3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A graded semantics for counterfactuals
Original language description
This article presents an extension of Lewis' analysis of counterfactuals to a graded framework. Unlike standard graded approaches, which use the probabilistic framework, we employ that of many-valued logics. Our principal goal is to provide an adequate analysis of the main background notion of Lewis' approach - the one of the similarity of possible worlds. We discuss the requirements imposed on the analysis of counterfactuals by the imprecise character of similarity and concentrate in particular on robustness, i.e., the requirement that small changes in the similarity relation should not significantly change the truth value of the counterfactual in question. Our second motivation is related to the logical analysis of natural language: analyzing counterfactuals in the framework of many-valued logics allows us to extend the analysis to counterfactuals that include vague statements. Unlike previous proposals of this kind in the literature, our approach makes it possible to apply gradedness at various levels of the analysis and hence provide a more detailed account of the phenomenon of vagueness in the context of counterfactuals. Finally, our framework admits a novel way of avoiding the Limit Assumption, keeping the core of Lewis' truth condition for counterfactuals unchanged.
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10101 - Pure mathematics

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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