Counterpossibles

DOI10.1007/S11245-016-9424-XMaRDI QIDQ1992014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timothy Williamson

Publication date 2 November 2018

Published in Topoi (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-016-9424-x

zbMATH Keywords

heuristicsconditionalscounterfactualsimpossible worldsreductio ad absurdumcounterpossiblesvacuous truth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45)

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