Similarity and cotenability

Vladan Djordjevic

pp. 681-691

in: Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks, John Symons (eds), Between logic and intuition, Synthese 190 (4), 2013.

Abstract

In this paper I present some difficulties for Lewis’s and similar theories of counterfactuals, and suggest that the problem lies in the notion of absolute similarity. In order to explain the problem, I discuss the relation between Lewis’s and Goodman’s theory, and show that the two theories are not related in the way Lewis thought they were.