Counterfactuals
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: October 15, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780674175419
Subjects: Logic; Philosophy; Counterfactuals (Logic)
First sentence: 'If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over' seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over.