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If I were a Dry Well-Made Match

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Adam Morton
Affiliation:
Princeton University

Abstract

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Notes—Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1973

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References

1 See for example Hempel, C. G., Aspects of Scientific Explanation (New York : The Free Press, 1966) p. 339Google Scholar. Note that in section 6 of Chapter IV of Fact, Fiction, and Forecast Goodman describes some exceptions to his principle. But they are of a different sort to those that I shall discuss.

2 This formulation is essentially due to R. C. Stalnaker, in ‘A Theory of Conditionals’, Studies in Logical Theory (A. P. Q,. supplementary monograph series, 1968). A persuasive and rigorous sharpening of it will appear in David Lewis' forthcoming book Counterfactuals (Blackwell, probably 1973).