The Material Conditional: Jackson
Discussion of Jackson's view that indicative conditionals are material conditionals, and his attempt to explain away apparent counter‐evidence by appeal to the notion of conventional implicature. His good explanation of the latter as a general phenomenon shows many respects in which it is not applicable to indicative conditionals.
Keywords: conditionals, implicature, indicative conditionals, Jackson, material conditionals
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