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Peter David Jones's avatar

You are Steve Sailer and I claim my five pounds :-)

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Ilya Shpitser's avatar

They didn't have counterfactuals to work out. For example, Tolstoy just wrote in Tsarist Russia. Shakespeare would occasionally assume e.g. a ghostly dad as a plot device, but again no real counterfactuals. Their worlds were belieavable because they were mostly just our world.

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