| Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia. |
| The Philosopher Igal Kvart has been a persistent critic of the claim that it is possible to analyze counterfactuals without using causation. |
| In his analysis Higginbotham takes into account earlier studies of counterfactuals, the issue of telicity, and possible influences of context. |
| Such a semantics states truth conditions for counterfactuals in terms of relations among possible worlds. |
| The moral to be drawn is that causation may imply that certain counterfactuals hold, but the holding of counterfactuals is not enough to show causation. |
| But it may strike us as being far from natural to say that all of these counterfactuals are true. |
