The Material Conditional: Grice
Discussion of Grice's view that indicative conditionals are material conditionals, and his attempt to explain away apparent counter‐evidence by appeal to his excellent theory of conversational implicature. Discusses failure of this attempt: indicatives obey the so‐called ‘Ramsey test’, and Grice's theory cannot explain this.
Keywords: conditionals, conversational implicature, Grice, indicative conditionals, material conditionals, Ramsey
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