Conditionals:truth, safety, and success

Mellor, Hugh; and Bradley, RichardORCID logo (2022) Conditionals:truth, safety, and success. Mind & Language, 37 (2). 194 - 207. ISSN 0268-1064
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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.

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