tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30422841.post1843852917733289664..comments2023-05-22T03:18:18.107-06:00Comments on Gotthammer: Mike Perschon's Online Asylum: A Defense of Alternate HistoryMike Perschonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09335943113292616702noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30422841.post-71452415570930315322007-02-13T15:47:00.000-07:002007-02-13T15:47:00.000-07:00An interesting paper, but it amazes me that some o...An interesting paper, but it amazes me that some of the critics you cite pass themselves off as scholars. After about one second of thought I can posit "If I were in Regina I would be in Saskatchewan" as a true counterfactual. In fact it's so true that it's not even close to "necessarily false." Just to indicate that false antecedent doesn't equal false subjunctive conditional, here's a few more:<BR/><BR/>If I weren't writing this, I would be doing something else.<BR/>If I weren't writing this, I wouldn't be writing this.<BR/>If my leg had been cut off I would have one less than I have now.<BR/>If this weren't an antecedent, this wouldn't be a consequent.<BR/>If I were claiming that all conditionals with false antecedents are false, I would be dead wrong.<BR/>If two were three, two plus two would be more than four or five.<BR/>If this were a tautology it would be true.<BR/>If this were an indicative conditional it would be incorrect to use the plural form of "was."The Gelatinous Cubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11897420175608221489noreply@blogger.com