The Conditional Fallacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10692829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Bonevac (0000-0001-8666-1771), Josh Dever, David Sosa |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-316 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00318108-2006-001 |
| OpenAlex | W1998372779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
∗ We are grateful to Michael Fara for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper. † The authors ’ names are listed in alphabetical order. c © 2006 conditionalfallacyphilreview.tex; 31/07/2006; 14:12; p.1 The thought that dispositional properties can be understood in terms of the holding of certain counterfactuals goes back at least to Ryle1: To say that this lump of sugar is soluble is to say that it would dissolve, if submerged anywhere, at any time and in any parcel of water. To say that this sleeper knows French, is to say that if, for example, he is ever addressed in French, or shown any French newspaper, he responds per-tinently in French, acts appropriately or translates correctly into his own tongue. (Ryle (1949), 123) This project of conditional analysis of dispositions faces considerable diffi-culties in refining the rather crude conditional connections that first come to mind.2 A more recent line of discussion, however, has suggested that there are general arguments against “any attempt to account for dispositions that makes essential use of strong conditionals and counterfactuals ” (Martin (1994), 7-8). This line, which begins with Shope (1978), and runs through Johnston
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
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