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A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals

Jonathan Bennett

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780199258871

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0199258872.001.0001

Uses of Indicative Conditionals

Chapter:
(p. 114 ) 8 Uses of Indicative Conditionals
Source:
A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
Author(s):

Jonathan Bennett

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199258872.003.0008

Discussion of the uses of indicative conditionals. Reasons for holding that when the antecedent is true, the conditional has the same truth value as the consequent. Conditionals as ‘inference‐tickets’. Non‐interference conditionals: ‘Even if A, still C’. So‐called ‘biscuit conditionals’.

Keywords:   biscuit conditionals, conditionals, indicative conditionals, inference‐ticket, non‐interference conditionals

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