Sentence examples for counterfactual possibility from inspiring English sources

King's compelling assassination novel – begun in the 1970s, but put down until he had the time for the exhaustive research it required – explores the counterfactual possibility of preventing Kennedy's murder.

What Holkot added to the discussion was an elaborate analysis of such puzzles using the rules and structure of obligational debates to explore counterfactual possibility.

Your verdicts about whether the stuff on Twin Earth counts as water, for instance, depends on whether you think of Twin Earth as a hypothesis about your actual environment or as a purely counterfactual possibility.

Antiochus' criticism suggests that he defended this view by pointing out that the theoretical or counterfactual possibility of error was epistemically irrelevant in cases where the impression is in fact true and our positive evidence for it is, in practice, conclusive (see Barnes 1989).

An intuitively plausible account of how learning occurs in this sort of situation is that the initial choice and its ensuing relatively bad outcome, by virtue of a comparison with an alternative counterfactual possibility, lead to an experience of regret, and this leads to adaptive choice switching (see Zeelenberg & Pieters, 2007).

This allows for a freer handling of counterfactual possibilities, an important feature in any refiguring of the limits of possibility.

So, for all those individuals who do not take LSD, do not have microelectrodes inserted in their brains, do not have brain tumors, etc., these sorts of counterfactual possibilities are irrelevant.

Today, dozens of counterfactuals – possibilities such as President Gore, Prime Minister Portillo or, chillingly, Prime Minister Boris – are churned out by conservative publishers.

The key theses of Williamson's counterfactual theory are: Logical Equivalence: metaphysical possibility and necessity can be proven to be logically equivalent to counterfactual conditionals.

The counterfactual theory, thus, holds the following.

This line of reasoning also comes with philosophical foundations, which we develop in terms of counterfactual reasoning and possibility space, Whitehead's process thought, and correlations with Eastern wisdom traditions.