Disjunctive antecedent conditionals

Disjunctive antecedent conditionals (DACs)—conditionals of the form if A or B, C—sometimes seem to entail both of their simplifications (if A, C; if B, C) and sometimes seem not to. I argue that this behavior reveals a genuine ambiguity in DACs. Along the way, I discuss a new observation about the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khoo, Justin Donald
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature America, Inc 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125750