Intervention and the Probabilities of Indicative Conditionals

Journal of Philosophy 112 (9):477-503 (2015)
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Abstract

A few purported counterexamples to the Adams thesis have cropped up in the literature in the last few decades. I propose a theory that accounts for them, in a way that makes the connections between indicative conditionals and counterfactuals clearer

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Exact Semantics for Indicative Conditionals.Hüseyin Güngör - 2017 - Dissertation, Bogazici University

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