Conditionals:truth, safety, and success
Mellor, Hugh; and Bradley, Richard
(2022)
Conditionals:truth, safety, and success.
Mind & Language, 37 (2).
194 - 207.
ISSN 0268-1064
Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent from the truth of its antecedent, and (II) The conditional is true iff the inference would not make a true belief in the antecedent cause a false belief in the consequent.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | conditionals,inferential dispositions,suppositions,actions,truth values |
| Departments | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1111/mila.12322 |
| Date Deposited | 10 Jul 2020 09:39 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105597 |
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