Finkish Backtracking Abilities
A disposition or ability is said to be 'finkish' iff, were the conditions for its exercise actual, the disposition/ability would be lost. (See Martin and Lewis.) For instance, imagine a sorcerer casts a spell on a fragile glass that will make it cease to be fragile if it is ever struck or dropped. (This example is due to Vihvelin. Realistic, non-magical examples are possible but more complex.) A fragile object is one that is disposed to break if struck, dropped, etc. The intuition is supposed to be that, given that the glass is intrinsically qualitatively identical to any other fragile...
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Conditionals
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Contemporary Thinkers
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David Lewis
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Divine Attributes
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Logic
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Metaphysics
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Molinism
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Providence and Sovereignty
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Thomism
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