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- Title
Counterfactuals as Strict Conditionals.
- Authors
Iacona, Andrea
- Abstract
This paper defends the thesis that counterfactuals are strict conditionals. Its purpose is to show that there is a coherent view according to which counterfactuals are strict conditionals whose antecedent is stated elliptically. Section 1 introduces the view. Section 2 outlines a reply to the main argument against the thesis that counterfactuals are strict conditionals. Section 3 compares the view with a proposal due to qvist, which may be regarded as its direct predecessor. Section 4 explains how the view differs from contextualist strict conditional accounts of counterfactuals. Finally, section 5 addresses the thorny issue of disjunctive antecedents
- Subjects
COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic); CONDITIONALS (Logic); COMPARATIVE grammar; LOGIC; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 41, p165
- ISSN
0873-626X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/disp-2015-0009