dspeyer comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: dspeyer 07 December 2012 06:17:11AM 0 points [-]

"If Oswald hadn't shot Kennedy, nobody else would've" is a fact

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 07 December 2012 12:18:43PM 0 points [-]

He is saying that that is a fact, but not merely because it is "a statement sufficiently well-formed to be either true or false". For example, he would say that "If Oswald hadn't shot Kennedy, somebody else would've" is not a fact, even though it is equally well formed. The point of the article is to explain how some counterfactuals can be facts while others are not.