Publikation: Counterfactuals and historical possibility
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Placek, Tomasz
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Synthese. 2007, 154(2), pp. 173-197. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-005-0617-x
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We show that truth conditions for counterfactuals need not always be given in terms of a vague notion of similarity. To this end, we single out the important class of historical counterfactuals and give formally rigorous truth conditions for these counterfactuals, employing a partial ordering relation called "comparative closeness" that is defined in the framework of branching space-times. Among other applications, we provide a detailed analysis of counterfactuals uttered in the context of lost bets. In an appendix we compare our theory with the branching space-times based reading of counterfactuals recently proposed by Belnap.
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PLACEK, Tomasz, Thomas MÜLLER, 2007. Counterfactuals and historical possibility. In: Synthese. 2007, 154(2), pp. 173-197. ISSN 0039-7857. eISSN 1573-0964. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s11229-005-0617-xBibTex
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