Topic: Counterfactuals
Impossible Worlds and Knowledge of Necessary Truths
By Allan Hazlett
I propose that safety and sensitivity conditionals may be used to explain the reliability of beliefs in necessary truths, by appeal to a non-standard semantics for counterfactuals with impossible antecedents and necessarily true consequents.
Link:
http://www.cassetteradio.com/hazlett/impossible.pdf
Source: Online Papers in Philosophy
Posted by Tony Marmo
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