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







doi:10.1093/0199258872.003.0009

Jonathan Bennett
Abstract: Expounds, mainly on the basis of Adams's work, the logic of indicative conditionals—with some help from his adaptation of Venn diagrams. Failure for indicatives of or-to-if, contraposition, transitivity, and antecedent strengthening. Controversy over whether modus ponens holds for indicatives. Independent indicatives identified and snubbed.

Keywords: Adams, antecedent strengthening, conditionals, contraposition, independent indicatives, indicative conditionals, modus ponens, or-to-if, transitivity, Venn,

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