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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

13766	'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey]
	Full Idea: Ramsey suggested that 'if', 'given that' and 'on the supposition that' come to the same thing, and that the degrees of belief in the antecedent should then conform to probability theory.
	From: report of Frank P. Ramsey (Truth and Probability [1926]) by Frank P. Ramsey - Law and Causality B
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