<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Batens, Diderik</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Almeder, Robert</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On Possibilities and Thought Experiments</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rescher Studies. A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ontos Verlag</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Frankfurt</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29–57</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This paper concerns two related recent books by Nicholas Rescher, &lt;em&gt;Imagining Irreality&lt;/em&gt; on possibilities and &lt;em&gt;What If?&lt;/em&gt; on thought experiments. Apart from an expository part, the present contribution consist on the one hand of some proposed elaborations, especially of two technical points, and on the other hand of some discussion concerning points where I am in doubt about Rescher's precise stand and of some suggestions for further research.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>