Moritz Schulz explores counterfactual thought and language: what would have happened if things had gone a different way. Counterfactual questions may concern large scale derivations (what would have happened if Nixon had launched a nuclear attack) or small scale evaluations of minor derivations (what would have happened if I had decided to join a different profession). A common impression, which receives a thorough defence in the book, is that oftentimes we find itimpossible to know what would have happened. However, this does not mean that we are completely at a loss: we are typically capable of evaluating counterfactual questions probabilistically: we can say what would have been likely or unlikely to happen. Schulz describes these probabilistic ways of evaluating counterfactual questions and turns the data into a novel account of the workings of counterfactual thought.
Moritz Schulz
Counterfactuals and Probability [PDF ebook]
Counterfactuals and Probability [PDF ebook]
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Мова Англійська ● Формат PDF ● Сторінки 256 ● ISBN 9780191089060 ● Видавець OUP Oxford ● Опубліковано 2017 ● Завантажувані 3 разів ● Валюта EUR ● Посвідчення особи 5281441 ● Захист від копіювання Adobe DRM
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