Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics

Francesco Berto

doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z

Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics

Francesco Berto^*

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Abstract

Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative 'if' is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a fallible cognitive heuristic, called the Suppositional Procedure. Williamson's Suppositional Conjecture has it that the Suppositional Procedure is humans' primary way of prospectively assessing conditionals. This paper raises some doubts on the Suppositional Procedure and Conjecture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Synthese
Volume	200
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2022

Keywords

Indicative conditionals
Acceptability of conditionals
Adams' thesis
Conditional probabilities

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