Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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Counterfactual conditional: the counterfactual conditional is equivalent to unreal conditional sentences. Conditionals, in which a fact is mentioned in the antecedent, which is not expressly the case. If A were the case, B would have been the case. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
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Fodor, Jerry   Books on Amazon	Counterfactual Conditionals	IV 84 Truth theory/Equivalence/problem of extensionality/Fodor/Lepore: Problem: snow is white iff grass is green) - this T-sentence does not support counterfactual conditional: if grass were not green, snow would not be white. _____________ 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.	F/L J. Fodor/E. Lepore Holism Cambridge USA Oxford UK 1992

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