If prophecy is constitutive rather than merely descriptive, then the counterfactual 'Peter would not deny' cannot coherently subtract the prophecy while preserving Peter's free choice as the sole variable.
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(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
counterfactual(Modal logic and epistemology)
A conditional statement concerning what would be the case if some antecedent condition were true, evaluated across possible worlds; contraposition does not hold in general for counterfactuals.
descriptive(describing the other type of vocabulary being compared)
Language or claims about how things *actually are* in reality—just the facts without judgments about whether they're good or bad.