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Subjunctive possibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (774 words) |
 | Subjunctive possibilities are the sorts of possibilities we consider when we conceive of counterfactual situations; subjunctive modalities are modalities that bear on whether a statement might have been or could be true--such as might, could, must, possibly, necessarily, contingently, essentially, accidentally, and so on. |
| The contrast with epistemic possibility is especially important to draw, since in ordinary language the same phrases ("it's possible," "it can't be", "it must be") are often used to express either sort of possibility. |
| Nomological possibility is possibility under the actual laws of nature. |
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