Triviality For Restrictor Conditionals

Noûs 50 (3):533-564 (2015)
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I present two Triviality results for Kratzer's standard “restrictor” analysis of indicative conditionals. I both refine and undermine the common claim that problems of Triviality do not arise for Kratzer conditionals since they are not strictly conditionals at all.

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