Mellor, Hugh and Bradley, Richard ORCID: 0000-0003-2184-7844
(2020)
Conditionals: truth, safety, and success.
Mind & Language.
ISSN 0268-1064
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Abstract
Whether 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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680017 |
Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s) |
Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2020 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2022 15:45 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105597 |
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