Single Idea 10990

[catalogued under 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals]

Full Idea

The 'conversational defence' of the truth-functional view of conditionals is that a conditional may not be assertible in difficult cases.

Gist of Idea

Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases?

Source

report of H. Paul Grice (Presupposition and Conversational Implicature [1977]) by Stephen Read - Thinking About Logic Ch.3

Book Reference

Read,Stephen: 'Thinking About Logic' [OUP 1995], p.69