Counterpossibles
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with necessarily false antecedents. The problem of counterpossibles is easiest to state within the “nearest possible world” framework for counterfactuals: on this approach, a counterfactual is true (roughly) when the consequent is true in the “nearest” possible w...
Main Author: | Krakauer, Barak L |
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Language: | ENG |
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498357 |
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