If you start following the parents from any concept you’ll ultimately end up going around in circles, but:
a) Further down the chain b) Counterfactuals or something very much like them (like possible worlds) are somewhere in the loop.
I think this makes a difference because if circularity is far down the chain then you can effectively ignore the circularity. Depending on other quite different concepts also makes it easier to ignore.
Are you aware of other concepts that have a similar circular dependency, or have seemed to have it?
If you start following the parents from any concept you’ll ultimately end up going around in circles, but:
a) Further down the chain
b) Counterfactuals or something very much like them (like possible worlds) are somewhere in the loop.
I think this makes a difference because if circularity is far down the chain then you can effectively ignore the circularity. Depending on other quite different concepts also makes it easier to ignore.