Evidential Support and Contraposition

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-532220
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.53222

Rott, Hans

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Abstract

The concept of an evidential conditional If A then C that can be defined by the conjunction of A>C and ¬C>¬A, where > is a conditional of the kind introduced by Stalnaker and Lewis, has recently been studied in a series of papers by Vincenzo Crupi and Andrea Iacona. In this paper I argue that Crupi and Iacona’s central idea that contraposition captures the idea of evidential support cannot be ...