Abstract
In this paper I will propose that the unpalatable consequences of narrow-scope principles are not avoided by altering the scope of the principle but by changing the kind of conditional. I argue that a counterfactual conditional should do the trick and that the rational requirement of modus ponens can be understood as something like a “Ramsey test” on this conditional.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 177-203 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Organon F |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Coherence
- Counterfactual conditionals
- modus ponens
- Ramsey test
- Rationality
- Wide and narrow scope conditionals