Zif would have been if: A suppositional view of counterfactuals

Noûs 44 (2):269-304 (2010)
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Abstract

Let us call a statement of the form ‘If A was, is, or will be the case, then C was, is, or will be the case’ an indicative conditional. And let us call a statement of the form ‘If A had been, were, or were to be the case, then C would have been, would be, or would come to be the case’ a subjunctive, or counterfactual, conditional.

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