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Single Idea 13856

[from 'Logic and Conversation' by H. Paul Grice, in 10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals ]

Full Idea

Grice argued that the truth-functional account of conditionals can withstand objections, provided that we are careful to distinguish the false from the misleadingly true.

Gist of Idea

Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones

Source

report of H. Paul Grice (Logic and Conversation [1975]) by Dorothy Edgington - Do Conditionals Have Truth Conditions? 2

Book Reference

'A Philosophical Companion to First-Order Logic', ed/tr. Hughes,R.I.G. [Hackett 1993], p.32