Lewis's generalization

Lewis's generalization is an analysis of the non-monotonic semantics of definite descriptions. It was proposed, as an aside, by David Lewis in Counterfactuals (1973): a sort of corollary to possible world semantics. Philippe Schlenker revived the analysis, dubbing it "Lewis's generalization" in 2003.^[1] Several other writers have accepted this terminology of Schlenker's.

See also

• Choice function
• Conditional
• Material conditional

Notes and references

Bibliography

Primary sources

• Stalnaker, Robert Culp (1968). "A Theory of Conditionals". Pages 41–55 in William Leonard Harper, Robert Culp Stalnaker, Glenn Pearce (eds). Ifs. Basil Blackwell.
• Lewis, David Kellogg (1973). Counterfactuals. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
• Lewis, David Kellogg (1973). "Counterfactuals and Comparative Similarity". Journal of Philosophical Logic 2/4: 418–446.

Other works

• Girard, Patrick. (2007). "From Onions to Broccoli: Generalizing Lewis’s Counterfactual Logic". Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics 17/2: 213–229.
• Schlenker, Philippe (2003). "Conditionals as Definite Descriptions: A Referential Analysis". Research on Language and Computation 2: 417–462.

External links

• Paul Égré and Mikäel Cozic. Introduction to the Logic of Conditionals. 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), 4–15 August 2008.