On Bradley's preservation condition for conditionals
Erkenntnis 67 (1):111 - 118 (2007)
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Igor Douven
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Bradley has argued that a truth-conditional semantics for conditionals is incompatible with an allegedly very weak and intuitively compelling constraint on the interpretation of conditionals. I argue that the example Bradley offers to motivate this constraint can be explained along pragmatic lines that are compatible with the correctness of at least one popular truth-conditional semantics for conditionals.
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| Keywords | Conditionals Bradley Adams’s Thesis Pragmatics |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10670-007-9043-4 |
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The Logic of Conditionals: An Application of Probability to Deductive Logic.Ernest W. Adams - 1996 - D. Reidel Pub. Co..
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