Single Idea 15372

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs]

Full Idea

In the debate about doxastic attitudes towards indicative conditional sentences, one finds philosophers who claim that conditionals can be believed even though they have no truth value (and thus are not true).

Clarification

'doxastic' concerns belief

Gist of Idea

Some claim that indicative conditionals are believed by people, even though they are not actually held true

Source

Leon Horsten (The Tarskian Turn [2011], 09.3)

Book Reference

Horsten,Leon: 'The Tarskian Turn' [MIT 2011], p.128