Counterfactuals for free
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Richard Creath
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Article
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1989
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Quine does not like counterfactuals. ~ He thinks them unclear, and so he eschews them. It is enough, he thinks, for science to say of what it is that it is and that it is all that is. There is no need to say of what is not that it is not, or even worse, to say of what is not what it would be if thin