Old Adams Buried

Analytic Philosophy 54 (2):157-188 (2013)
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I present some counterexamples to Adams's Thesis and explain how they undermine arguments that indicative conditionals cannot be truth-evaluable propositions

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Ian Rumfitt
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A treatise on probability.John Maynard Keynes - 1921 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.
Philosophical Papers Vol. II.David K. Lewis (ed.) - 1986 - Oxford University Press.
A philosophical guide to conditionals.Jonathan Bennett - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
On conditionals.Dorothy Edgington - 1995 - Mind 104 (414):235-329.

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