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You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

said on doing philosophy for living but that thought better fit.

Our question for episode 240 is something like,

how does context determine how we understand each other,

or maybe do possible worlds exist?

And we read three selections by David Lewis,

scorekeeping in a language game from 1979,

chapter four of his book Counter-Factuals from 1973,

and Truth In Fiction from 1978.

For more information, visit partiallyxamonlife.com.

This is Mark Linson-Meyer,

broadcasting for many possible worlds,

simultaneously in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Hawnone,

an existential quantified and actual Cambridge.

This is Dylan Casey,

for whom it's explicitly true that I do not have a third master.

And this is Matt Teichmann,

actually located in Chicago, Illinois,

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