Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals
Indicative conditionals appear to lie on a continuum, with the subjective and information-based on one side, and the objective and fact-based on the other. Attempts to bring them all under the same theoretical umbrella usually start at the subjective end; conditionals get more objective as they com...
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| author | Yablo, Stephen |
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| description | Indicative conditionals appear to lie on a continuum, with the subjective and information-based on one side, and the objective and fact-based on the other. Attempts to bring them all under the same theoretical umbrella usually start at the subjective end; conditionals get more objective as they come to be based in higher-quality, less parochial, information. I propose to go in the other direction, looking first for a class of “absolute” conditionals, then bringing in other conditionals by relaxing the constraints defining that class. (A plan of action is laid out at the end of section 4. The final footnote of each section sketches the contents of the next.) |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1153572022-10-02T06:36:18Z Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals Yablo, Stephen Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Yablo, Stephen Indicative conditionals appear to lie on a continuum, with the subjective and information-based on one side, and the objective and fact-based on the other. Attempts to bring them all under the same theoretical umbrella usually start at the subjective end; conditionals get more objective as they come to be based in higher-quality, less parochial, information. I propose to go in the other direction, looking first for a class of “absolute” conditionals, then bringing in other conditionals by relaxing the constraints defining that class. (A plan of action is laid out at the end of section 4. The final footnote of each section sketches the contents of the next.) 2018-05-14T14:27:05Z 2018-05-14T14:27:05Z 2015-10 2018-05-14T14:13:44Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2153-9596 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115357 Yablo, Stephen. “Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals.” Analytic Philosophy 57, 3 (May 2016): 175–213 © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-8323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/PHIB.12081 Analytic Philosophy Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley-Blackwell MIT Web Domain |
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| title | Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals |
| title_full | Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals |
| title_fullStr | Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals |
| title_short | Ifs, Ands, and Buts: An Incremental Truthmaker Semantics for Indicative Conditionals |
| title_sort | ifs ands and buts an incremental truthmaker semantics for indicative conditionals |
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