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 "near...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/522 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1518&context=open_access_dissertations |