Counterfactuals: The Epistemic Analysis

Ordinarily counterfactuals are seen as making statements about states of affairs, albeit ones that hold in merely possible or alternative worlds. Thus analyzed, nearly all counterfactuals turn out to be incoherent. Any counterfactual, thus analyzed, requires that there be a metaphysically (not just...

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Published in:Philosophia Scientiæ
Main Author: John-Michael Kuczynski
Format: Article
Language:German
Published: Éditions Kimé 2005-05-01
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/618