Les raisonnements contrefactuels dans l’histoire

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours

关键词: contingency;    counterfactual reasoning;    historiography;    possible worlds;    verisimilitude;   

DOI  :  10.4000/aad.4696

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper deals with the diverse types of counterfactual reasoning – particularly those one encounters in historiography and more generally in essays dealing with historical events. A number of key examples from Robespierre, the French Revolution and the Terror of 1794 to Nazism, and to the Collapse of the USSR are analyzed. The author sketches a typology and attempts at explaining the contexts where such arguments will appear relevant and significant. It summarily discusses the much disputed notions of Possible world, probability, verisimilitude, contingency, and necessity.

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