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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Origin of Counterfactual Thinking
The origin of counterfactual thinking is somewhat, as I think it was, subjunctive thinking about how we're going to act. And then that's get extended to what would have happened, were this to have occurred or that to have occurred. It turns out that this way of talking has been enormously useful as a way of talking about what actually happens.
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