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...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 195; no. 4; pp. 1587 - 1615
Main Author:	Willemsen, Pascale
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2018
Subjects:	Causation (Philosophy) Counterfactuals (Logic) Expectation (Psychology) Blame Social norms
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost