Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics

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Publication date 02-2022
Journal Synthese
Article number 8
Volume | Issue number 200 | 1
Number of pages 12
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative ‘if’ is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a fallible cognitive heuristic, called the Suppositional Procedure. Williamson’s Suppositional Conjecture has it that the Suppositional Procedure is humans’ primary way of prospectively assessing conditionals. This paper raises some doubts on the Suppositional Procedure and Conjecture.

Document type Article
Note This research is published within the project ‘The Logic of Conceivability’, funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG), Grant Number 681404.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85125335014
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