Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics
Erkenntnis 83 (5):875-898 (2018)
Abstract
It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepticism is to postulate the existence of primitive modal facts that serve as truth-makers for counterfactual claims. Moreover, I defend a new theory of ‘might’ counterfactuals, and develop assertability and knowledge criteria to suit such unobservable ‘counterfacts’.
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Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?Gettier, Edmund
Monism: The Priority of the Whole.Schaffer, Jonathan
Knowledge and Its Limits.Williamson, Timothy
The Metaphysics within Physics.Maudlin, Tim
Counterfactuals.Lewis, D.
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