McCutcheon, Randall G. (2019) Adams Thesis and the Local Interpretation of Conditionals. [Preprint]
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Adams' Thesis states that the probability of a conditional is the probability of the consequent conditional on the antecedent. S. Kaufmann introduced a rival method, the so-called ``local interpretation'', for calculating the probability of a conditional that, according to a purported majority, squares better with intuition in some circumstances. He also gives an example purporting to show that this new method sometimes corresponds to rational action. We challenge the intuitions and expose a mathematical error in the example. We also offer a model for the local interpretivist semantics. This model puts theoretical local interpretivists on ground as solid as that of Thesis abiders for whom conditionals have truth conditions.
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Keywords: | Adams Thesis, Lewisian Triviality | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Randall G. McCutcheon | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2019 03:32 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2019 03:32 | ||||||
Item ID: | 16321 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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Date: | 11 August 2019 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16321 |
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