{"id":11,"date":"2000-05-18T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2000-05-18T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=20"},"modified":"2000-05-18T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2000-05-18T07:00:01","slug":"counterfactual-notation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2000\/05\/18\/counterfactual-notation\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterfactual notation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <font><strong>Jos Lehmann (University of Amsterdam):<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font>Jos Lehmann noticed potential ambiguity in the notation used for counterfactual propositions. Capital letters, like <em>&quot;A&quot;<\/em> or <em>&quot;B,&quot;<\/em> are sometimes used to denote propositional variables, and sometimes to denote propositions. For example, in the function <em>A = C<\/em> (Model M, page 209) <em>&quot;A&quot;<\/em> stands for the variable  &quot;whether rifleman<em>-A<\/em> shoots&quot;, and takes on values in {true, false}, while in statements S1-S5 (page 208),  <em>A<\/em> stands for a proposition (e.g., &quot;Fireman-<em>A<\/em> shot&quot;).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jos Lehmann (University of Amsterdam): Jos Lehmann noticed potential ambiguity in the notation used for counterfactual propositions. Capital letters, like &quot;A&quot; or &quot;B,&quot; are sometimes used to denote propositional variables, and sometimes to denote propositions. For example, in the function A = C (Model M, page 209) &quot;A&quot; stands for the variable &quot;whether rifleman-A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-j-pearl","category-counterfactual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}