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