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Volume 10 - March 1980

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  • CAN volume 10 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    01 January 2020, pp. f1-f3
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  • CAN volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    01 January 2020, pp. b1-b6
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Research Article

  • Cans and Counterfactuals

  • Douglas N. Walton
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    01 January 1979, pp. 489-496

  • In a critical study of some recent action theory Professor James Tomberlin [7] makes some insightful and suggestive remarks concerning the by now well known problem of "Smith and the airplane" formulated by Keith Lehrer and Richard Taylor [3]. While these remarks do significantly advance our knowledge of the nature of the problem, I would like to try to show why the strategy they indicate does not lead to a solution that represents any improvement on the one developed in [1], [8] and [2].

    The problem of Smith and the airplane is posed by the following apparent inconsistency. Suppose it is now shortly before 3:30 and Smith is at a country airport. The 3:30 plane is the only possible means whereby Smith can arrive at the city at 4:00. There is nothing to prevent Smith from leaving on the 3:30 plane, but he in fact does not do so: Then each of the following statements are true.

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    01 January 2020, pp. f1-f3
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