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 | ||||||
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Keywords: | Indicative conditionals; logical consequence | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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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 |
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Date: | 7 June 2016 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12165 |
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