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Full Idea
Some people even claim that conditionals do not express propositions.
Gist of Idea
Some people even claim that conditionals do not express propositions
Source
Stephen Read (Thinking About Logic [1995], Ch.7)
Book Ref
Read,Stephen: 'Thinking About Logic' [OUP 1995], p.184
A Reaction
See Idea 14283, where this appears to have been 'proved' by Lewis, and is not just a view held by some people.
Related Idea
Idea 14283 A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington]
| 7803 | Modal logic began with translation difficulties for 'If...then' [Lewis,CI, by Girle] |
| 14286 | In nearby worlds where A is true, 'if A,B' is true or false if B is true or false [Stalnaker] |
| 14283 | A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington] |
| 13768 | Validity can preserve certainty in mathematics, but conditionals about contingents are another matter [Edgington] |
| 13853 | It is a mistake to think that conditionals are statements about how the world is [Edgington] |
| 15422 | Three conditionals theories: Materialism (material conditional), Idealism (true=assertable), Nihilism (no truth) [Burgess] |
| 15423 | It is doubtful whether the negation of a conditional has any clear meaning [Burgess] |
| 14623 | Strict conditionals imply counterfactual conditionals: □(A⊃B)⊃(A□→B) [Williamson] |
| 10992 | The point of conditionals is to show that one will accept modus ponens [Read] |
| 10989 | The standard view of conditionals is that they are truth-functional [Read] |
| 11017 | Some people even claim that conditionals do not express propositions [Read] |