counterpossibles

A form of counterpossible — A counterfactual in which the antecedent could not possibly be true.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of counterpossible

    Therefore, Brogaard and Salerno are very probably right in concluding that the antirealist who endorses the sometimes-true-sometimes-false reading of counterpossibles cannot succeed in arguing that Q(P).

    2007 September 20, Luca Moretti, “Brogaard and Salerno on antirealism and the conditional fallacy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI
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