Held, Carsten (2016) Indicative conditionals and logical consequence. [Preprint]

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Abstract

For an indicative conditional to be true it is not generally sufficient that its antecedent be false or its consequent true. I propose to analyse such a conditional as strong, i.e. as containing a tacit quantification over a domain of possible situations, with the if-clause specifying that domain such that the conditional gets assigned the appropriate truth conditions. Now, one definition of logical consequence proceeds in terms of a natural-language conditional. Interpreting it as strong leads to a paraconsistent consequence relation, though the motivation behind it is not to reason coherently about contradictions but to reason entirely without them.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Held, Carsten carsten.held@uni-erfurt.de
Keywords:	Indicative conditionals; logical consequence
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation
Depositing User:	Carsten Held
Date Deposited:	12 Jun 2016 17:58
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2016 17:58
Item ID:	12165
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation
Date:	7 June 2016
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12165

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