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This paper discusses some key connexive principles construed as principles about reasons, that is, as principles that express logical properties of sentences of the form ‘p is a reason for q’. Its main goal is to show how the theory of reasons outlined by Crupi and Iacona, which is based on their evidential account of conditionals, yields a formal treatment of such sentences that validates a restricted version of the principles discussed, overcoming some limitations that affect most extant accounts of conditionals.
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Iacona, A. Connexivity in the Logic of Reasons. Stud Logica 112, 325–342 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-023-10041-w
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