Why Those Biscuits Are Relevant and on the Sideboard

• Autores: Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz
• Localización: Theoria : a Swedish journal of philosophy, ISSN 0040-5825, Vol. 87, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 704-712
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper, we explain why the antecedent of a biscuit conditional is relevant to its consequent by extending Douvenʼs evidential support theory of conditionals making use of utilities. By this extension, we can also explain why a biscuit conditional gives rise to the inference that the consequence is (most likely) true. Finally, we account for the intuition that (indicative) biscuit sentences are false when the antecedent is false and allow for counterfactual biscuits.