Counterfactuals and Updates as Inverse Modalities (preliminary Version)

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  • Mark Ryan
  • Odinaldo Rodrigues
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We point out a simple but hitherto ignored link between the theory of updates and counterfactuals and classical modal logic: update is a classical existential modality, counterfactual is a classical universal modality, and the link between the two (called the Ramsey rule) is simply the link between two inverse accessibility relations of a classical Kripke model.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996