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- Title
Import‐Export and 'And'.
- Authors
Mandelkern, Matthew
- Abstract
Import‐Export says that a conditional of the form ⌜p>(q>r)⌝ is always equivalent to the corresponding conditional ⌜(p∧q)>r⌝. I argue that Import‐Export does not sit well with a classical approach to conjunction: given some plausible and widely accepted principles about conditionals, Import‐Export together with classical conjunction leads to absurd consequences. My main goal is to draw out these surprising connections. In concluding, I argue that the best response to these facts is to reject Import‐Export and adopt instead a limited version of that principle which better fits natural language data, still accounts for the intuitions that motivate Import‐Export, and sits more easily with a classical conjunction.
- Subjects
CONJUNCTIONS (Grammar); NATURAL language processing; ABSURD (Philosophy); CONDITIONALS (Logic); CONDITIONALS (Grammar); LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2020, Vol 100, Issue 1, p118
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/phpr.12513