Journal of Philosophy 118 (12):645-679 (2021)
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The Identity principle says that conditionals with the form 'If p, then p' are logical truths. Identity is overwhelmingly plausible, and has rarely been explicitly challenged. But a wide range of conditionals nonetheless invalidate it. I explain the problem, and argue that the culprit is the principle known as Import-Export, which we must thus reject. I then explore how we can reject Import-Export in a way that still makes sense of the intuitions that support it, arguing that the differences between indicative and subjunctive conditionals play a key role in solving this puzzle.
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Keywords | conditionals Import-Export Identity logic of conditionals |
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Reprint years | 2021 |
DOI | 10.5840/jphil20211181242 |
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