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UNINA9910160327803321 |
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Autore |
Schulz Moritz |
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Titolo |
Counterfactuals and probability / / Moritz Schulz |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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9780191831713 |
0-19-183171-9 |
0-19-108906-0 |
0-19-878595-X |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This edition previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Problem of Evaluating Counterfactuals -- 3 Counterfactual Chance -- 4 A Puzzle About Counterfactuals -- 5 Restriction and Modification -- 6 Counterfactuals and Arbitrariness -- 7 Applications -- 8 Triviality -- 9 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume explores counterfactual thought and language. We can typically evaluate counterfactual questions probabilistically, predicting what would be likely or unlikely to happen. Schulz describes these probabilistic ways of evaluating counterfactual questions and turns the data into a novel account of the workings of counterfactual thought. |
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