One is when I think of what the world would be like if I did something that I'm not going to do.
Another is when I think of what the world would be like if something not under my control had happened differently, and how my actions affect that.
Well, I've been consistently using the word "conterfactual" in your second sense.
Well that might explain some of our miscommunication. I'll go back and check.
Consequences" only in a counterfactual world. . I don't see how you can call this consequentialist without streching the term to the point that it could include nearly any morality system.
This makes sense using the first definition, at least, according to TDT it does.
Both CDT and TDT compare counter-factuals, they just take their counter-factual from different points in the causal graph.
This is clearly using the first definition.
...Counterfactual mugging and the ransom
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