I’m pretty sure that’s not how counterfactuals are normally thought to work. “Counterfactual” means contrary-to-the-facts. Something that is true is not contrary to the facts.
Argument: If you are right, then why is this only true for experiments? Isn’t it equally true for anything that happens—before it happens, it’s just a counterfactual, and then after it happens, it’s actual?
I’m pretty sure that’s not how counterfactuals are normally thought to work. “Counterfactual” means contrary-to-the-facts. Something that is true is not contrary to the facts.
Argument: If you are right, then why is this only true for experiments? Isn’t it equally true for anything that happens—before it happens, it’s just a counterfactual, and then after it happens, it’s actual?