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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe

Counterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with nomologically or metaphysically impossible antecedents, namely, counternomics or counterpossibles. In this paper I defend the make-believe view of sci...

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Autor principal: Iranzo-Ribera, Noelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9649460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36397838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03949-8