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20. COULD THE PAST HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT? - A Student Grapples With The Futility of Historical Counterfactuals

November 04, 2019 by DaN McKee in Epistemology, Meaning, Philosophy Unleashed, Student Writing, Time, History

“If we cannot change the past itself then why do we concern ourselves with the ‘what ifs’? Perhaps we may want to conceive that the grass would have been greener in the present if the past had been different...”

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November 04, 2019 /DaN McKee
Time Travel, philosophy, philosophy unleashed, student writing, student philosophy, war, counterfactual, freewill, change the past
Epistemology, Meaning, Philosophy Unleashed, Student Writing, Time, History
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