Suppose, Suppose

Analysis 53 (1):61 - 64 (1993)
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Abstract

I give reasons stemming from the nature of narrative thinking why two-antecedent conditionals, most naturally expressed as "Suppose A. Suppose moreover B. Then C" the two antecedents play different roles. I formalise this idea with a two-dimensional similarity relation between possible worlds.

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Adam Morton
PhD: Princeton University; Last affiliation: University of British Columbia

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First-Order Logics for Comparative Similarity.Timothy Williamson - 1988 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 29 (4):457-481.
[Omnibus Review].Richard E. Grandy - 1982 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 47 (3):689-694.

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