Bennett, Jonathan formerly Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925887-1
doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0012
 

Jonathan Bennett
Defends the view that for the evaluation of a subjunctive conditional, the closeness of an antecedent world depends upon how much it resembles the actual world up to the time of the antecedent. Conditional excluded middle for subjunctives is discussed, and rejected because closest antecedent worlds may be objectively indeterministic, in which case each of the opposing conditionals may be false.
Keywords: antecedent, conditionals, excluded middle, indeterminism, subjunctive conditionals
doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0012
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