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Tom
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| Posted 6/17/2003 6:20 AM (GMT -6) |   | Doc-
Do you know David Lewis at Princeton? Have you read his book Counterfactuals? Allan?
And either one of you, can you suggest a good introduction to logic? Something I'd understand. You know me! 
Tom
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 6/17/2003 10:51 AM (GMT -6) | | Psssst...Tom, come here. (Whispering) Just between you and me. Alan's name is spelled with one "L."
OK!!! Ummm...I think Stark has a found a good one on line.
Brandon
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.--Isa 49:15-16
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Alan Rhoda
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| Posted 6/18/2003 6:56 AM (GMT -6) | | And my last name is "Rhoda" not "Rhodes", but I've had my name misspelled all my life, so it doesn't bother me.
Tom, I haven't read Lewis's book, though I mean to sometime next year. David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker (in a book called Inquiry) independently developed what has become the standard semantics for counterfactuals. Basically, the idea is that a counterfactual (specifically, a 'would'-counterfactual) is true if in all possible worlds relevantly similar to the actual world in which the antecedent is true, the consequent is true as well. The difficulty, of course, is in spelling out what is and is not "relevantly similar".
I don't know if either author gives a systematic discussion of 'might'-counterfactuals.
As for a good introduction to logic. Hmmm. I presume you're interested mostly in formal logic, right? Well, pretty much any introductory text on logic and critical thinking will have a few chapters on formal logic. The book I got started on is Patrick Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic. Another good book is Howard Kahane's Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction. Both books have been through many editions (Hurley's in on the 8th, and Kahane's is on the 9th), so you can probably find a used copy of an earlier edition real cheap if you search around.
Happy syllogizing!
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Starkman
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| Posted 6/18/2003 3:55 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
OK!!! Ummm...I think Stark has a found a good one on line.
Nah. I thought I had, but it wasn't much to brag about. Nothing Tom wouldn't know and know well.
Starkman
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