Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been, by Christopher Prendergast

Book of the week: Robert Eaglestone praises a dazzlingly wide-ranging analysis of the choices we don’t make

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May 23, 2019
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Iin philosophy, counterfactuals provide thought experiments, and (as might be expected) have turned out to be quite complex, interesting and problematic forms of language use in their own right’

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#1 Submitted by dneep@... on May 28, 2019 - 4:46am
I think the author meant ‘apodosis’...

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