Temporal necessity and the conditional (Q2640588)

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    In standard possible worlds semantics for conditional logic a similarity- relation between worlds is used to express truth conditions for conditionals. A reasonable explication for comparative world similarity is the principle of Past Predominance: past similarities and differences take priority over future similarities and differences. Here Past Predominance is expressed without using branching time models. This approach allows to solve the completeness problem for a logic of temporal necessity and to incorporate Edelberg inferences into the proposed system.
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    modal logic
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    possible worlds semantics
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    conditional logic
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    comparative world similarity
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    Past Predominance
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    logic of temporal necessity
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    Edelberg inferences
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