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This is the partially examined life episode 240,

part two we've been talking about David Lewis.

We've done pretty well getting through chapter four

of his book Counterfactuals.

We have remaining to us two essays,

scorekeeping in a language game from 1979

and truth in fiction from 1978.

Let's move on to the more linguistic stuff now

that we've got the idea of counterfactuals

and possible worlds at our disposal to use as necessary.

Matt, this scorekeeping in a language game,

this was the first thing you had pulled out and said,

oh, this is so fun.

You know, obviously the word language game is in there,

so it's some kind of later vitk and style thing.

There were some responses to Jail Austin on performatives.

We've talked about performatives again recently on this podcast.

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