Comments on: Gillies on Counterfactual Scorekeeping http://semantics-online.org/2005/12/gillies-on-counterfactual-scorekeeping A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:42:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tony Marmo http://semantics-online.org/2005/12/gillies-on-counterfactual-scorekeeping#comment-251 Tony Marmo Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:01:12 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2005/12/gillies-on-counterfactual-scorekeeping#comment-251 <p>Let me say two things: [1] I have read the first pages of the paper. Firstly Gilles’ ideas still have to be checked against an explicit modal system. Though I notice he based his analyses on the properties of natural language semantics, it would be interesting if we pick a set of axioms, say S4 or S5 or any other, for instance, and see what the <i>syntax</i> and the <i>semantics</i> of the system <i>will tell us</i> about his strict conditional analyses, what axioms will apply and so on.</p> <p>[2]Your paper on the same topic has enticed my curiosity to the extent that I for the moment intend to investigate and work on the issue. By the way, I have added an entire <a>section</a> devoted to it in my blog. Before I had made an insufficient <i>counterfactuals weak</i>.</p> Let me say two things:
[1] I have read the first pages of the paper. Firstly Gilles’ ideas still have to be checked against an explicit modal system. Though I notice he based his analyses on the properties of natural language semantics, it would be interesting if we pick a set of axioms, say S4 or S5 or any other, for instance, and see what the syntax and the semantics of the system will tell us about his strict conditional analyses, what axioms will apply and so on.

[2]Your paper on the same topic has enticed my curiosity to the extent that I for the moment intend to investigate and work on the issue. By the way, I have added an entire section devoted to it in my blog. Before I had made an insufficient counterfactuals weak.

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