Hyperfactuals.
A historical sequence is said to be hyperfactual whenever it contains facts that have been proved to exist twice, that is, they exist under two alternative courses of events: the factual and the counterfactual. In such cases, we may verify whether multiple courses of action lead to the same outcome....
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 21 - 42 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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