A Uniform Theory of Conditionals
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A Uniform Theory of Conditionals
A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicative and subjunctive conditionals without positing ambiguities. This paper raises new problems for the closest thing to a uniform analysis in the literature [83] and develops a new theory which solves them. I also show that this new analysis provides an improved treatment of three phenomena (the im...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Philosophical Logic
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0022-3611,1573-0433
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-013-9300-8