Parts and Partitions

• Published in: Theoria (Lund, Sweden) Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 41 - 82
• Main Author: HUMBERSTONE, LLOYD
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2000; Filosofoska institutionen, Kungshuset Lundagård
• Subjects: Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Mereology; Copy; Lewis (D.); Modal Logic; Combination; Part; Independence; Theorization; Rule; States of Affairs

: 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...