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| 13858 | The truth-functional account of conditionals is right, if the antecedent is really acceptable |
| Full Idea: Jackson defends the truth-functional account by saying that for a conditional to be assertable, it must not only be believed that its truth-conditions are satisfied, but the belief must be robust or resilient with respect to the antecedent. | |||
| From: report of Frank Jackson (Conditionals and Possibilia [1981]) by Dorothy Edgington - Do Conditionals Have Truth Conditions? 4 | |||
| A reaction: ..That is, one would not abandon the conditional if one believed the antecedent to be true. |