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
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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.”
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Attributed to David Lewis:
“I believe that there are possible worlds other than the one we happen to inhabit.”
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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.”
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Attributed to David Lewis:
“Reality is, in the end, an ample plurality.”
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Attributed to David Lewis:
“A theory pays a price in ontological commitment for the explanatory benefits it confers.”