Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success
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Peer-reviewed
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Authors
Mellor, Hugh
Bradley, Richard
Abstract
jats:pWhether 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.</jats:p>
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5003 Philosophy, 5004 Religious Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
Journal Title
Mind & Language
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Journal ISSN
0268-1064
1468-0017
1468-0017
Volume Title
37
Publisher
Wiley