1001Philosophers

David Lewis Quotes on Truth

David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the most influential figures of late twentieth-century analytic metaphysics. This page collects quotes attributed to David Lewis on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to David Lewis:

    “There are so many other worlds, in fact, that absolutely every way that a world could possibly be is a way that some world is.”

  • Attributed to David Lewis:

    “I believe that there are possible worlds other than the one we happen to inhabit.”

  • Attributed to David Lewis:

    “The actual world is the world we are part of, no more and no less actual than any other world is to its inhabitants.”

  • Attributed to David Lewis:

    “Reality is, in the end, an ample plurality.”

  • Attributed to David Lewis:

    “A theory pays a price in ontological commitment for the explanatory benefits it confers.”