Zif is if

被引:20
作者
Barnett, David [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Dept Philosophy, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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10.1093/mind/fzl519
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
A conditional takes the form 'If A, then C'. On the truth-conditional view of conditionals, conditional statements state things with truth-conditions. On the suppositional view, conditional statements involve the expression of a supposition. I develop and defend a view on which conditional statements both state things with truth-conditions and express suppositions. On this view, something is fundamentally right about standard truth-conditional and standard suppositional views. Considerations in favor of conditional contents lead us to attribute truth-conditional contents to conditional statements; considerations in favor of the suppositional view then lead us to an unexpected account of these contents. The resulting view has a number of benefits, including a unified treatment of conditional speech acts, a plausible account of our practice of ascribing truth-values to conditional statements, a simple explanation of the apparent equivalence between probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities, an intuitive treatment of 'Gibbardian stand-offs, a plausible logic of conditionals, and an explanation of why theorizing about conditionals has proved so difficult.
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页码:519 / 565
页数:47
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