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This episode explains how we use “distance” between possible worlds to judge counterfactuals like “If I hadn’t shot, he wouldn’t have died,” and why we usually choose worlds most similar to ours. It then introduces David Lewis’s “small miracle” idea to explain how one key event can differ while laws of nature stay effectively the same.
By Sêng-Gān
This episode explains how we use “distance” between possible worlds to judge counterfactuals like “If I hadn’t shot, he wouldn’t have died,” and why we usually choose worlds most similar to ours. It then introduces David Lewis’s “small miracle” idea to explain how one key event can differ while laws of nature stay effectively the same.