A counterfactual conditioned on an impossible antecedent ('were someone to token P') is vacuously true of any consequent, yielding indeterminate rather than determinate truth-conditions.
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A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)
impossible antecedent(as used in logic)
An 'if' condition that can never be true, like 'if a circle is square' or 'if 2+2=5'.
token(Philosophy of language; type-token distinction)
An actual physical thing located at a specific place in spacetime; a concrete instantiation such as a pile of ink on a page, a sound wave, or a collection of pixels on a computer screen
truth-conditions(Used to characterize views of meaning that the passage argues should be rejected.)
The conditions under which a sentence or statement is true, which truth-conditional theories identify with sentence meaning.
vacuously true
The status assigned to a universally quantified formula ∀xA in a model with an empty domain, on which it counts as true despite having no instances