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Single Idea 14290
[filed under theme 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals
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Full Idea
The doctor says "If the patient is still alive in the morning, change the dressing". As a truth-functional command this says "Make it that either the patient is dead in the morning, or change the dressing", so the nurse kills the patient.
Gist of Idea
Doctor:'If patient still alive, change dressing'; Nurse:'Either dead patient, or change dressing'; kills patient!
Source
Dorothy Edgington (Conditionals (Stanf) [2006], 5)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.29
A Reaction
Isn't philosophy wonderful?
Related Idea
Idea 14305
In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[conditional truth based entirely on components]:
20789
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Conditionals are false if the falsehood of the conclusion does not conflict with the antecedent
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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12197
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Inferring q from p only needs p to be true, and 'not-p or q' to be true
[Russell]
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14450
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All forms of implication are expressible as truth-functions
[Russell]
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14305
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In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water
[Carnap]
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8948
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The odd truth table for material conditionals is explained by conversational conventions
[Grice, by Fisher]
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13767
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Conditionals might remain truth-functional, despite inappropriate conversational remarks
[Edgington on Grice]
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13856
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Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones
[Grice, by Edgington]
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15725
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Normal conditionals have a truth-value gap when the antecedent is false.
[Quine]
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14288
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'If A,B' affirms that A⊃B, and also that this wouldn't change if A were certain
[Jackson, by Edgington]
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13769
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Conditionals are truth-functional, but should only be asserted when they are confident
[Jackson, by Edgington]
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14289
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There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent
[Jackson, by Edgington]
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14353
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Modus ponens requires that A→B is F when A is T and B is F
[Jackson]
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14354
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When A and B have the same truth value, A→B is true, because A→A is a logical truth
[Jackson]
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14355
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(A&B)→A is a logical truth, even if antecedent false and consequent true, so it is T if A is F and B is T
[Jackson]
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13858
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The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable
[Jackson, by Edgington]
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14361
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Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional
[Lewis, by Jackson]
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13764
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Are conditionals truth-functional - do the truth values of A and B determine the truth value of 'If A, B'?
[Edgington]
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13765
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'If A,B' must entail ¬(A & ¬B); otherwise we could have A true, B false, and If A,B true, invalidating modus ponens
[Edgington]
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14274
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Inferring conditionals from disjunctions or negated conjunctions gives support to truth-functionalism
[Edgington]
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14276
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The truth-functional view makes conditionals with unlikely antecedents likely to be true
[Edgington]
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14275
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Truth-function problems don't show up in mathematics
[Edgington]
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14290
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Doctor:'If patient still alive, change dressing'; Nurse:'Either dead patient, or change dressing'; kills patient!
[Edgington]
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14309
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Truth-functional conditionals can't distinguish whether they are causal or accidental
[Mumford]
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22281
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A material conditional cannot capture counterfactual reasoning
[Potter]
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8947
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If all truths are implied by a falsehood, then not-p might imply both q and not-q
[Fisher]
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