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Evidential Support and Contraposition

Rott, Hans (2022) Evidential Support and Contraposition. Erkenntnis.

Veröffentlichungsdatum dieses Volltextes: 28 Nov 2022 08:21
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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.53222


Zusammenfassung

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 ...

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 maintained. I give examples showing that contraposition is neither necessary nor sufficient for a conditional’s antecedent supporting its consequent. Crupi and Iacona’s alternative account of evidential conditionals that is based on a probabilistic measure of evidential support cannot add to the credentials of their modal account, because both the theoretical role of contraposition and the resulting logic are different in this account.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftErkenntnis
Verlag:Springer
Datum10 November 2022
InstitutionenPhilosophie, Kunst-, Geschichts- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Institut für Philosophie > Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Philosophie (Prof. Dr. phil Hans Rott)
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WertTyp
10.1007/s10670-022-00628-5DOI
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-532220
Dokumenten-ID53222

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