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In this paper I distinguish three senses of could turn out/couldhave turned out in an attempt to elucidate how each is connected tothe notion of discovery and how each determines that a statement ofthe form `X could turn out P' (`X could have turned out P') is true.I argue that the actuality-oriented sense of could turn outbest captures what we ordinarily mean when we use could turnout or could have turned out in a nonevidential sense.
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Jones, J. What Could Turn Out, Actually Speaking. Philosophical Studies 105, 211–236 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010309724733
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010309724733