The world of Counterfactuals
Things that have not happened -- but could happen -- are the things that constitute the world of counterfactuals, a neglected area of scientific theory.
A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universe. There is a vast class of properties, which science has so far neglected, that relate not only to what is true the actual but to what could be true: the counterfactual. This is the science of can and can't.
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