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Bennett, Jonathan
formerly Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925887-1 |
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doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0022
Abstract: Presents Bennett's theory about the different kinds of bases upon which indicative conditionals may be accepted; bases that enable one to explain the antecedent, or the consequent, or some other fact not expressed in the conditional. It is shown that bases of two of these kinds also support the corresponding subjunctive, while bases of the third kind do not; and that the classification of bases does not yield a classification of conditionals. This destroys the only persuasive reason for accepting the relocation thesis, according to which subjunctives should be grouped with indicatives of the type ‘If it rains tonight, the roads will be wet in the morning’.
Keywords: conditionals, indicative conditionals, relocation, subjunctive conditionals,
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