Zif is If

Barnett, David

doi:10.1093/mind/fzl519

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“…56 Although most philosophers who emphasize the relation between 'suppose' and 'if' (e.g. Barnett 2006) go on to develop some form of 'no truth value' theory of conditionals, the theory of 'suppose', there is no need for us to say anything more about (2a-b). If the point of (2a) is to cause subsequent utterances of 'Then ψ' to be processed like 'If it is raining and might not be raining, ψ', our story about the infelicity of such conditionals will carry over automatically to (2a).…”

Section: Supposition and Other Attitudesmentioning

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Embedding Epistemic Modals

Dorr¹,

Hawthorne²

2013

Mind

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Abstract:Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin 'If it is raining and it might not be raining, …' sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin 'If it is raining and I don't know it, …'. These facts pose a prima facie problem for an orthodox treatment of epistemic modals as expressing propositions about the knowledge of some contextually specified individual or group. This paper develops an explanation of the puzzling facts about embedding within an orthodox framework.

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Section: Supposition and Other Attitudesmentioning

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Embedding Epistemic Modals

Dorr¹,

Hawthorne²

2013

Mind

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“…2 See, e.g., Adams (1975), Edgington (1995) and Barnett (2006). I follow the standard practice of wedding the suppositional view to conditional probabilities and a standard analysis of these probabilities.…”

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Realizing what might be

Willer

2010

Philos Stud

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“…22 Cf. Barnett (2006) and Edgington (1995). 23 I have borrowed the term 'partial assertion' from Price (1983) who develops a similar view concerning 'probably'.…”

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“…For a defence of the suppositional view, see e.g Adams (1975),Barnett (2006),. andEdgington (1995).2 Adams (1996, 2f) takes it to be the default assumption.…”

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Wondering what might be

Schulz

2009

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This paper explores the possibility of supplementing the suppositional view of indicative conditionals with a corresponding view of epistemic modals. The most striking feature of the suppositional view consists in its claim that indicative conditionals are to be evaluated by conditional probabilities. On the basis of a natural link between indicative conditionals and epistemic modals, a corresponding thesis about the probabilities of statements governed by epistemic modals can be derived. The paper proceeds by deriving further consequences of this thesis, in particular, the logic of epistemic modals and their logical interaction with indicative conditionals are studied.

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Zif is If

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Embedding Epistemic Modals

Embedding Epistemic Modals

Realizing what might be

Wondering what might be

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