Subjunctive Possibility - Subjunctive Possibility and Other Modalities

Subjunctive Possibility and Other Modalities

Subjunctive possibility is contrasted with (among other things) epistemic possibility (which deals with how the world may be, for all we know) and deontic possibility (which deals with how the world ought to be).

Further information: Counterfactual conditional

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