Journal article
Conditionals and actuality
- Abstract:
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It is known that indicative and subjunctive conditionals interact differently with a rigidifying "actually" operator. The paper studies this difference in an abstract setting. It does not assume the framework of possible world semantics, characterizing "actually" instead by the type of logically valid formulas to which it gives rise. It is proved that in a language with such features all sentential contexts that are congruential (in the sense that they preserve logical equivalence) are extens...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Erkenntnis Journal website
- Volume:
- 70
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 135-150
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-8420
- ISSN:
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0165-0106
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5120
- Deposit date:
- 2011-03-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Springer Science + Business Media B V
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- The original publication is available at springerlink.com (which you may be able to access via the publisher copy link on this record page). Citation: Williamson, T. (2009). 'Conditionals and actuality', Erkenntnis 70(2), 133-150.
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