contrafactuals

Question 1

lab rat

Answer 1

-All the properties of the actual world are assumed to obtain in
the counterfactual world, save the one being connected with a
particular outcome.
-predictive
model
ex: If this match had been struck, it would have lit

Question 2

spotlight

Answer 2

The point of a spotlight is not its predictive
power, but the way in which these
constructions “spotlight” some aspect of the actual world that supports the line of
reasoning expressed in the counterfactual.
Spotlights are not deep metaphysical
statements, but rather serve rhetorical
goals by underscoring particular aspects of
experience or perception.
ex:In France, Watergate wouldn’t have harmed Nixon.