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Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016 Satire has not been given the humorologists’ attention to an extent that would do justice to the amount of humor satire actually holds. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to shed light on satire as humorous discourse, with an emphasis on ...
Maslo Adi
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Counterpossibles in Science: The Case of Relative Computability [PDF]
, 2018 I develop a theory of counterfactuals about relative computability, i.e. counterfactuals such as 'If the validity problem were algorithmically decidable, then the halting problem would also be algorithmically decidable,' which is true, and 'If the ...
Jenny, Matthias
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, 2010 Timothy Williamson (1992, 224–5) and Ernest Sosa (1996) have ar- gued that knowledge requires one to be safe from error. Something is said to be safe from happening iff it does not happen at “close” worlds.
Frank J. J. Leusen (1939729) +3 more
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Synthese, 1999 A definition is proposed to give precise meaning to the counterfactual statements that often appear in discussions of the implications of quantum mechanics. Of particular interest are counterfactual statements which involve events occurring at space-like separated points, which do not have an absolute time ordering. Some consequences of this definition
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Sufficient Causes: On Oxygen, Matches, and Fires
Journal of Causal Inference, 2019 We demonstrate how counterfactuals can be used to compute the probability that one event was/is a sufficient cause of another, and how counterfactuals emerge organically from basic scientific knowledge, rather than manipulative experiments.
Pearl Judea
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 Treatment response is heterogeneous. However, the classical methods treat the treatment response as homogeneous and estimate the average treatment effects. The traditional methods are difficult to apply to precision oncology. Artificial intelligence (AI)
Qiyang Ge +7 more
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Counterfactual Causality from First Principles?
, 2017 In this position paper we discuss three main shortcomings of existing approaches to counterfactual causality from the computer science perspective, and sketch lines of work to try and overcome these issues: (1) causality definitions should be driven by a
Gössler, Gregor +2 more
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Fantasy proneness and counterfactual thinking [PDF]
, 2013 Counterfactual thinking (CFT; mentally simulating alternatives to reality) is central to learning and motivation. Two studies explored the relationship between CFT and fantasy proneness, a personality trait typified by excessive fantasies hard to ...
Bacon, AM, Martin, L, Walsh, CR
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Belgrade Philosophical AnnualIn this paper, I appeal to a quantified counterfactual logic in order to argue that van Inwagen's new version of the Consequence Argument, unlike the original version of his argument, is logically valid.
Hausmann Marco
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Some Notes on Counterfactuals in Quantum Mechanics
Entropy, 2020 Counterfactuals, i.e., events that could have occurred but eventually did not, play a unique role in quantum mechanics in that they exert causal effects despite their non-occurrence.
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Eliahu Cohen
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