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Lewis is included among the American Pragmatist s. He wrote at length about Epistemology and Ethics , and supported Bayesian Probability . He was also the first to employ the term " Qualia ", popularized by his student Nelson Goodman , in its generally-agreed modern sense. Lewis was a major logician, learning the subject from Josiah Royce who also supervised his Ph.D. thesis. Lewis took exception to Bertrand Russell 's notion of Material Implication that pervades '' Principia Mathematica ''. Lewis' response was to devise a system of Modal Logic that is the ancestor of all modern work on the subject. Lewis and Langford (1932), the culmination of Lewis's work on logic, sets out the modal logics S1 through S5 as the first formal analyses of the Alethic Modalities .
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