Remarks on wishes and counterfactuals

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79 (3):191–196 (1998)
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A kind of ‘isomorphism’ is commented on, between the relation of wants to indicative conditionals and the relation of wishes to counter‐factual conditionals. Among other things, it is suggested that Richard Jeffrey’s theory of decision applies equally to degrees of ‘wishedforness’.

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10.1111/1468-0114.00057

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