Williamson on Counterpossibles

A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delivers the view that some such conditionals are true, and some are false. In recent publications, Timothy Williamson has defended the view that all are true. In this paper we defend the common sense view...

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Autores principales: Berto, Francesco, French, Rohan, Priest, Graham, Ripley, David
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6435010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x
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description A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delivers the view that some such conditionals are true, and some are false. In recent publications, Timothy Williamson has defended the view that all are true. In this paper we defend the common sense view against Williamson’s objections.
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spelling pubmed-64350102019-04-15 Williamson on Counterpossibles Berto, Francesco French, Rohan Priest, Graham Ripley, David J Philos Logic Article A counterpossible conditional is a counterfactual with an impossible antecedent. Common sense delivers the view that some such conditionals are true, and some are false. In recent publications, Timothy Williamson has defended the view that all are true. In this paper we defend the common sense view against Williamson’s objections. Springer Netherlands 2017-08-16 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6435010/ /pubmed/30996471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10992-017-9446-x Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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