Single Idea 14360

[catalogued under 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / b. Types of conditional]

Full Idea

Subjunctive conditionals are intimately connected with dispositional properties and causation. ...Consequently, a position some find attractive is that possible worlds theory applies to subjunctives, while the no-truth theory applies to indicatives.

Clarification

'Subjunctive conditionals' are also called 'counterfactuals'

Gist of Idea

Possible worlds for subjunctives (and dispositions), and no-truth for indicatives?

Source

Frank Jackson (Conditionals [2006], 'Indicative')

Book Reference

'Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language', ed/tr. Devitt,M/Hanley,R [Blackwell 2006], p.221


A Reaction

My intuitions are to reject this and favour a unified account, where both sorts of conditionals are mappings of the relationships among the facts of actuality. Nice slogan!