Such associations were not possible because they were not included in the systematic associations of terms in the original environment. (religion-online.org)
It is possible because the extended meaning depends, not upon the original environment presupposed for the original meaning, but upon a different environment presupposed for the stretched meaning. (religion-online.org)
This is to say that we believe the biological and accidental generalizations fail to support subjunctive conditionals because we believe we are unwarranted in extending these generalizations to environments for which we lack important information or to environments we believe to have importantly different features than the original environment. (religion-online.org)