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Remarks on Wishes and Counterfactuals
Article first published online: 17 DEC 2002
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0114.00057
University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998
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Adams, E. W. (1998), Remarks on Wishes and Counterfactuals. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79: 191–196. doi: 10.1111/1468-0114.00057
Publication History
- Issue published online: 17 DEC 2002
- Article first published online: 17 DEC 2002
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A kind of ‘isomorphism’ is commented on, between the relation of wants to indicative conditionals and the relation of wishes to counter-factual conditionals. Among other things, it is suggested that Richard Jeffrey’s theory of decision applies equally to degrees of ‘wishedforness’.