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Title: | Material Consequence and Counter-Factuals |
Authors: | Hitchcock, David |
Keywords: | associated conditional;closest-world semantics;consequence;counter-factuals;covering generalization;David Lewis;Judea Pearl;law-like generalization;material consequence;structural model semantics;Philosophy;Philosophy |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Abstract: | <p>A conclusion is a “material consequence” of reasons if it follows necessarily from them in accordance with a valid form of argument with content. The corresponding universal generalization of the argument’s associated conditional must be true, must be a covering generalization, and must be true of counter-factual instances. But it need not be law-like. Pearl’s structural model semantics is easier to apply to such counter-factual instances than Lewis’s closest-worlds semantics, and gives intuitively correct results.</p> |
Description: | <p>This paper was presented at a conference, Virtues of Argumentation, sponsored by the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, and held at the University of Windsor from May 23-25. It is expected to be published in a CD of the proceedings.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/5647 |
Identifier: | philosophy_coll/3 1005 4154355 |
Appears in Collections: | Philosophy Publications |
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