Reflections on Legality
The primacy of causal laws in subjunctive conditionals is explained. Discussion of miracles at forks, and of counter‐legal conditionals: ones about what would have been the case if some actual causal law had been false. Subjunctives are ‘impossibility‐intolerant’; comparison of this with the zero intolerance of indicatives.
Keywords: causal laws, conditionals, fork, impossibility‐intolerance, indicative conditionals, miracles, subjunctive conditionals, zero intolerance
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