Sylvan's Box: A Short Story and Ten Morals

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38 (4):573-582 (1997)
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The paper contains a short story which is inconsistent, essentially so, but perfectly intelligible. The existence of such a story is used to establish various views about truth in fiction and impossible worlds

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Philosophical papers.David Kellogg Lewis - 1983 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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