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...

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Main Author: Krakauer, Barak L
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2012
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498357