A Uniform Theory of Conditionals.
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicative and subjunctive conditionals without positing ambiguities. This paper raises new problems for the closest thing to a uniform analysis in the literature (Stalnaker, Philosophia, 5, 269-286 (1975)) a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 43; no. 6; pp. 1019 - 1065 |
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Dec2014
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