Benardete’s paradox and the logic of counterfactuals

Analysis 78 (1):22-34 (2018)
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Abstract

I consider a puzzling case presented by Jose Benardete, and by appeal to this case develop a paradox involving counterfactual conditionals. I then show that this paradox may be leveraged to argue for certain non-obvious claims concerning the logic of counterfactuals.

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