Possible worlds semantics

Paul Gochet
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In 1919, Irving Lewis axiomatically introduced the connective ⊰, rendered as ‘Necessarily if … then …’ or ‘It is impossible for … to be the case and for … not to be the case’, and called strict implication. It was explained as follows: “the relation of strict implication expresses precisely that relation which holds when valid deduction is possible and fails to hold when valid deduction is not possible” (Lewis & Langford 1932: 247).

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