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An Expressivist Analysis Of The Indicative Conditional With A Restrictor Semantics
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9934-3833
2021 (English)In: The Review of Symbolic Logic, ISSN 1755-0203, E-ISSN 1755-0211, Vol. 14, no 2, p. 487-530, article id PII S1755020319000662Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A globally expressivist analysis of the indicative conditional based on the Ramsey Test is presented. The analysis is a form of 'global' expressivism in that it supplies acceptance and rejection conditions for all the sentence forming connectives of propositional logic (negation, disjunction, etc.) and so allows the conditional to embed in arbitrarily complex sentences (thus avoiding the Frege-Geach problem). The expressivist framework is semantically characterized in a restrictor semantics due to Vann McGee, and is completely axiomatized in a logic dubbed ICL ('Indicative Conditional Logic'). The expressivist framework extends the AGM (after Alchourron, Gardenfors, Makinson) framework for belief revision and so provides a categorical ('yes'-'no') epistemology for conditionals that complements McGee's probabilistic framework while drawing on the same semantics. The result is an account of the semantics and acceptability conditions of the indicative conditional that fits well with the linguistic data (as pooled by linguists and from psychological experiments) while integrating both expressivist and semanticist perspectives.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) , 2021. Vol. 14, no 2, p. 487-530, article id PII S1755020319000662
Keywords [en]
global expressivism, conditionals, indicative conditionals, dynamic semantics, restrictor semantics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-299975DOI: 10.1017/S1755020319000662ISI: 000673319400007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85091850413OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-299975DiVA, id: diva2:1586631
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Available from: 2021-08-20 Created: 2021-08-20 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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