Parts and Partitions

: We use some ideas of David Lewis firom modal metaphysics ‐ in particular the concept of duplication and the Principle of Recombination—together with Lewis's theory of subject matters as partitions of the set of worlds, to illuminate the perennially elusive topic of logical subtraction, system...

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Published inTheoria (Lund, Sweden) Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 41 - 82
Main Author HUMBERSTONE, LLOYD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2000
Filosofoska institutionen, Kungshuset Lundagård
Subjects
Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language
Philosophy
Mereology
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Lewis (D.)
Modal Logic
Combination
Part
Independence
Theorization
Rule
States of Affairs
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Summary:: We use some ideas of David Lewis firom modal metaphysics ‐ in particular the concept of duplication and the Principle of Recombination—together with Lewis's theory of subject matters as partitions of the set of worlds, to illuminate the perennially elusive topic of logical subtraction, systematic theorising about which is in dire need of a non‐standard notion of logical independence. A paradigm case of the desired notion emerges as the kind of independence which obtains between statements which are in Lewis's sense ‘entirely about’ mereologically disjoint spatial regions.
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ISSN:0040-5825
1755-2567
DOI:10.1111/j.1755-2567.2000.tb01144.x