A logic for 'because'

Review of Symbolic Logic 4 (3):445-465 (2011)
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Abstract

In spite of its significance for everyday and philosophical discourse, the explanatory connective has not received much treatment in the philosophy of logic. The present paper develops a logic for based on systematic connections between and the truth-functional connectives

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