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Evaluation of counterfactuality in counterfactual communication protocols [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2017 We provide an in-depth investigation of parameter estimation in nested Mach-Zehnder interferometers (NMZIs) using two information measures: the Fisher information and the Shannon mutual information. Protocols for counterfactual communication have, so far, been based on two different definitions of counterfactuality.
Arvidsson-Shukur, DRM +2 more
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, 2018 A counteridentical is a counterfactual with an identity statement in the antecedent. While counteridenticals generally seem non-trivial, most semantic theories for counterfactuals, when combined with the necessity of identity and distinctness, attribute ...
Alexander W. Kocurek +73 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 A growing body of research suggests that counterfactual thinking after traumatic events is associated with post-traumatic stress reactions. In this study we explored frequency of upward and downward counterfactuals in trauma-exposed individuals, and how ...
Ines Blix +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 How to recognise potential disasters is a question at the centre of risk analysis. Over-reliance on an incomplete, often epistemologically-biased, historical record, and a focus on quantified and quantifiable risks, have contributed to unanticipated ...
Camilla Penney +5 more
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Philosophies, 2023 In this paper, I argue that David Lewis’s possible world semantics for counterfactual discourse and for fictional discourse are apparently inconsistent and in need of revision.
Andrew D. Bassford
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Chances, counterfactuals and similarity [PDF]
, 2008 John Hawthorne in a recent paper takes issue with Lewisian accounts of counterfactuals, when relevant laws of nature are chancy. I respond to his arguments on behalf of the Lewisian, and conclude that while some can be rebutted, the case against the ...
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Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
Philosophies, 2022 A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, is required to match that of the ...
Alison Fernandes
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Counterfactuals of Ontological Dependence [PDF]
, 2020 A great deal has been written about 'would' counterfactuals of causal dependence. Comparatively little has been said regarding 'would' counterfactuals of ontological dependence.
Baron, Sam
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Noûs, 2015 AbstractI offer a novel solution to the problem of counterfactual skepticism: the worry that all contingent counterfactuals without explicit probabilities in the consequent are false. I argue that a specific kind of contextualist semantics and pragmatics for would‐ and might‐counterfactuals can block both central routes to counterfactual skepticism ...
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Self-referent upward counterfactuals and depression: Examining regret as a mediator
Cogent Psychology, 2018 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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