This is because we can ask how Black can have the counterfactual power to ensure that Jones can only decide how Black wants him to. Does it simply mean "imaginary" ?
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Most examples of this term thrown up by Google search seem to use it to mean the hypothetical power to change things that have already happened.
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Most examples of this term thrown up by Google search seem to use it to mean the hypothetical power to change things that have already happened.
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