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Subjunctive conditionals: Subjunctive conditionals are conditional sentences that express what would happen if a condition were met, but the condition is not true or is unlikely to be true. They are also known as counterfactual conditionals. See also Counterfactual conditionals, Counterfactuals.
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Wilfrid Sellars on Subjunctive Conditionals - Dictionary of Arguments

Brandom I 169
Subjunctive Conditionals/counterfactual conditionals/Sellars: are the expression of substantive rules whose authority is not derived from logical or formal rules! We use them constantly.
>Counterfactual conditionals
, >Counterfactuals, >Everyday language.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Sellars I
Wilfrid Sellars
The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, University of London 1956 in: H. Feigl/M. Scriven (eds.) Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1956
German Edition:
Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes Paderborn 1999

Sellars II
Wilfred Sellars
Science, Perception, and Reality, London 1963
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Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977

Bra I
R. Brandom
Making it exlicit. Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment, Cambridge/MA 1994
German Edition:
Expressive Vernunft Frankfurt 2000

Bra II
R. Brandom
Articulating reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism, Cambridge/MA 2001
German Edition:
Begründen und Begreifen Frankfurt 2001


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