Contrary-to-Fact Conditionals and Logical Impossibility

Analysis 18 (1):14 - 16 (1957)
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The article is a criticism of john watling's argument about contrary-To-Fact conditionals. The author states: "a conditional which is contrary-To-Fact does not enable us in any way to decide which statements... Are empirical and which are analytic." (staff)

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