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  Japanese Translation of D. Lewis Counterfactuals (1986/1973)

 

    (2007) Keiso Shobo: Tokyo.

 

   I translated Lewis' Counterfactuals into Japanese, including

   translator's commentary 50 pages long.
 
A Dynamic Semantics for Vague Predicates
 
   The Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12(2): 109-128.
 
   ABSTRACT: Since the mid-seventies, supervaluationism has been
   supported because of its capacity to give a conservative semantics 
   for vauge predicates and to avoid the so-called sorites paradox.    
   As many opponents point out, however, this framework has something 
   elusive and leaves sereval things unexplained. Dynamic semantics, 
   which I present here, is introduced to interpret the elusiveness
   positively from an information-theoretic point of view. The aim 
   of the paper is to present a dynamic semantics for vague predicates 
   as a revised version of supervaluationism. 
 
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