Backtracking Counterfactuals Revisited
I discuss three observations about backtracking counterfactuals not predicted by existing theories, and then motivate a theory of counterfactuals that does predict them. On my theory, counterfactuals quantify over a suitably restricted set of historical possibilities from some contextually relevant...
Main Author: | Khoo, Justin Donald |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy |
Format: | Article |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115383 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-2462 |
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