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COUNTERFACTUALS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY
The article exposes (in brief) the theories of the counterfactuals in analytical philosophy (metalinguistic, ontological and suppositionist) and discusses the conditions of assertability of counterfactuals in historiography.
Zenonas Norkus
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Facts in counterfactuals-cognitive representations of Chinese counterfactuals
How do people represent counterfactuals? As languages differ in expressibility of counterfactuals—some languages employ explicit grammatical marking for counterfactuals while others do not—are some speakers’ representations of counterfactuals less ...
Yufei Ren, Gang Cui, Stella Christie
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Self-referent upward counterfactuals and depression: Examining regret as a mediator
Previous research has found that self-referent upward counterfactuals are associated with depression. However, empirical evidence regarding the way self-referent upward counterfactuals exert their influence on depression remains scarce.
Anne Gene Broomhall, Wendy J Phillips
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Consilience in Causation: Causal Emergence Is Found Across Measures of Causation [PDF]
Causation is fundamentally important to science, and yet our understanding of causation is spread out across disparate fields, with different measures of causation having been proposed in philosophy, statistics, psychology, and other areas.
Renzo Comolatti, Erik Hoel
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Physical and Metaphysical Counterfactuals: Evaluating Disjunctive Actions
The structural interpretation of counterfactuals as formulated in Balke and Pearl (1994a,b) [1, 2] excludes disjunctive conditionals, such as “had X$X$ been x1 or x2$x_1~\mbox{or}~x_2$,” as well as disjunctive actions such as do(X=x1 or X=x2)$do(X=x_1 ...
Judea Pearl
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Uncertainty of Counterfactuals in Deep Learning
Counterfactuals have become a useful tool for explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Counterfactuals provide various perturbations to a data instance to yield an alternate classification from a machine learning model.
Katherine Elizabeth Brown +2 more
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On God’s Knowledge of Counterfactuals of Freedom [PDF]
To answer the problem of incompatibility between divine providence and creaturely freedom, Molinism suggests the theory of middle knowledge, a theory that claims by assuming God’s knowledge of counterfactuals of freedom, we can resolve the problem ...
Farid al-Din Sebt +3 more
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On the Substitution of Identicals in Counterfactual Reasoning [PDF]
It is widely held that counterfactuals, unlike attitude ascriptions, preserve the referential transparency of their constituents, i.e., that counterfactuals validate the substitution of identicals when their constituents do.
Alonso‐Ovalle Luis +11 more
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A Methodological Inquiry on Compatibility of Droysen’s Understanding and Weber’s Counterfactuals
Gustav Droysen introduced understanding as the method of history. Max Weber analyzed what-if statements or counterfactuals as a form of causal explanation. Both scholars had a common interest in understanding and explanation.
Mykola Bakaiev
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Counterfactuals, counteractuals, and free choice [PDF]
In a recent paper, Pruss proves the validity of the rule beta-2 relative to Lewis’s semantics for counterfactuals, which is a significant step forward in the debate about the consequence argument.
Lampert, Fabio, Merlussi, Pedro
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