How and why I arrived at a topsy-turvy account of Even-Ifs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11420016 |
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| Authors | Murali Ramachandran (0000-0001-5611-518X, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-198 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580136.2015.1020993 |
| OpenAlex | W2954739270 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Most philosophers of logic reject the prima facie plausible view that Even-If conditionals entail their consequents, and settle instead for accounts on which Even-Ifs entail the corresponding If-conditionals. In this paper, I provide fresh motivation for the rejected, consequent-entailing, view and sketch a pragmatic strategy to explain away seemingly proper, but apparently countervailing, uses
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| Highly cited | No |
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