The interest of epistemic comparative conditionals comes from the fact that they represent genuine ‘comparative epistemic relations’ between propositions, situations, evidences, abilities, interests, etc. This paper argues that various types of epistemic comparative conditionals uniformly represent comparative epistemic relations via the comparison of epistemic positions rather than the compari...

The Ramsey test provides an intuitive link between conditionals and belief revision. How easy is it to incorporate a Ramseyaccount of conditionals in a reason maintenance system? In this paper, it is shown that this is indeed possible, within a relevance-logical framework. In addition, it is shown that independently motivated requirements on reason maintenance systems allow us to gracefully cir...

The bivariate distribution with exponential conditionals (BEC) is introduced by Arnold and Strauss [Bivariate distributions with exponential conditionals, J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 83 (1988) 522–527]. This work presents a simple and fast algorithm for simulating random variates from this density.

There has been a murder in the mansion. There are, and we all know that this is so, only three suspects: the gardener, the driver, and the butler. We believe, and we have our reasons for so believing, that if the gardener did not do it, then the driver did. We share belief in this particular conditional, and this conditional is of a particular kind. It is what Quine calls an ‘‘ordinary indicati...

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...