Omissions and expectations: a new approach to the things we failed to do.
Imagine you and your friend Pierre agreed on meeting each other at a café, but he does not show up. What is the difference between a friend’s not showing up meeting? and any other person not coming? In some sense, all people who did not come show the same kind of behaviour, but most people would be...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 4; pp. 1587 - 1615 |
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