The classic “Anderson Case” has the characteristic grammatical form of one of these statements but does not convey a false or unlikely antecedent. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these statements that concern hypothetical possibilities and often take the form “if it were the case that P, then it would be the case that Q.”
ANSWER: counterfactuals [or counterfactual conditionals; accept contrafactuals or subjunctive conditionals; prompt on conditionals]
[10h] The “variably strict analysis” of counterfactuals is sometimes named for Robert Stalnaker and this thinker. In a 1973 book, this thinker argued only the closest antecedents are relevance for counterfactuals.
ANSWER: David Lewis [or David Kellogg Lewis]
[10e] In his book On the Plurality of Worlds, Lewis defended modal realism, which is the view that all possible worlds have this property. Descartes’s method of radical doubt ends with affirming that he has this property.
ANSWER: existence [or they exist; accept ergo sum; accept ego existo; accept I am]
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