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22281 | A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning [Potter] |
Full Idea: What the material conditional most significantly fails to capture is counterfactual reasoning. | |
From: Michael Potter (The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 [2020], 04 'Sem') | |
A reaction: The point is that counterfactuals say 'if P were the case (which it isn't), then Q'. But that means P is false, and in the material conditional everything follows from a falsehood. A reinterpretation of the conditional might embrace counterfactuals. |