Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Import‐Export says that a conditional of the form is always equivalent to the corresponding conditional . I argue that Import‐Export does not sit well with a classical approach to conjunction: given some plausible and widely accepted principles about conditionals, Import‐Export together with classical conjunction leads to absurd consequences. My main goal is to draw out these surprising connections. In concluding, I argue that the best response to these facts is to reject Import‐Export and adopt instead a limited version of that principle which better fits natural language data, still accounts for the intuitions that motivate Import‐Export, and sits more easily with a classical conjunction.
DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12513
Author: Matthew Mandelkern
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2831760150