（is it wrong somewhere?） if this were not true, then we would be able...
if this were not true, then we would be able to predict the behaviour and charater of a person from the moment they were botn.
'If this were not true' Shoud I change were to was? And why?
Otherwise, that is the meaning of this sentence.
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"were" here is an example of the subjunctive form in English - quite rare. In the second conditional, it is more correct to say "if I / he / she / this / that were" not "was". But in practice, "was" is so widely used that it is not considered to be a mistake any more..
In your sentence, "this" refers back to a phrase in the previous sentence which you have not quoted so it is impossible to know the meaning. ("character" "born" - typos)
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Were is right .. it's the second case of " if"
It indicates that this thing is unlikely to be true
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