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RE: [jboske] factivity of nu



At 01:03 PM 1/12/03 +0000, And Rosta wrote:
So you accept the distinction between the two, but McGovern counts
as a what-if, I take it. Okay, I had misunderstood you. So
McGovern as president in 1972 is a what-if, but Colin Powell as
president in 2010 is a potential, I presume. And all what-ifs are
equally unverifiable.

Fine. But we still need to find ways of expressing "could have been"
as distinct from "imaginary", even though you subscribe to a
philosophy that holds the two to be indistinguishable.

puka'ejenaicaka'e is explicit "could have been but isn't still possible".


lojbab

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