State of affairs has some technical usages in philosophy, as well as being a phrase in everyday speech in English. It is a way of referring to a factual situation. States of affairs may be actual or hypothetical. They may be possible or (in some sense) impossible. They are things for which people may wish, or guard against.

See also

• Possible world
• De facto
• Powers that be

External link

• States of Affairs at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Philosophical terminology