Ceteris Paribus Conditionals and Comparative Normalcy
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Ceteris Paribus Conditionals and Comparative Normalcy
Our understanding of subjunctive conditionals has been greatly enhanced through the use of possible world semantics and, more precisely, by the idea that they involve variably strict quantification over possible worlds. I propose to extend this treatment to ceteris paribus conditionals – that is, conditionals that incorporate a ceteris paribus or ‘other things being equal’ clause. Although such...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Philosophical Logic
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3611,1573-0433
DOI: 10.1007/s10992-006-9030-2