What I mean is that some people seem to think that if they can describe a system that explains counterfactuals without mentioning counterfactuals when explaining them that they’ve avoided a circular dependence. When of course, we can’t just take things at face value, but have to dig deeper than that.
??? I don’t follow. You meant to write “use system X instead of using system Y which calls itself a definition of counterfactuals ”?
What I mean is that some people seem to think that if they can describe a system that explains counterfactuals without mentioning counterfactuals when explaining them that they’ve avoided a circular dependence. When of course, we can’t just take things at face value, but have to dig deeper than that.
OK thanks for explaining. See my other recent reply for more thoughts about this.