- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Material Conditional: Grice
- 3 The Material Conditional: Jackson
- 4 The Equation
- 5 The Equation Attacked
- 6 The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals
- 7 Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
- 8 Uses of Indicative Conditionals
- 9 The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
- 10 Subjunctive Conditionals—First Steps
- 11 The Competition for ‘Closest’
- 12 Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
- 13 Forks
- 14 Reflections on Legality
- 15 Truth at the Actual World
- 16 Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability
- 17 ‘Even if . . . ’
- 18 Backward Subjunctive Conditionals
- 19 Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow
- 20 Support Theories
- 21 The Need for Worlds
- 22 Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional
- 23 Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics
The Equation
The Equation
- Chapter:
- (p.45) 4 The Equation
- Source:
- A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
- Author(s):
Jonathan Bennett
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The Ramsey test for indicative conditionals suggests that they are to be understood in terms of subjective probability. This concept is explained, and elements of probability logic expounded. Indicative conditionals are mostly zero intolerant, meaning that such a conditional is useless to someone who is really sure that its antecedent is false. The Equation is introduced: i.e. the thesis that your probability for ‘If A, C’ (indicative) is your conditional probability for C given A.
Keywords: conditionals, indicative conditionals, Ramsey test, subjective probability
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Material Conditional: Grice
- 3 The Material Conditional: Jackson
- 4 The Equation
- 5 The Equation Attacked
- 6 The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals
- 7 Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values
- 8 Uses of Indicative Conditionals
- 9 The Logic of Indicative Conditionals
- 10 Subjunctive Conditionals—First Steps
- 11 The Competition for ‘Closest’
- 12 Unrolling from the Antecedent Time
- 13 Forks
- 14 Reflections on Legality
- 15 Truth at the Actual World
- 16 Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability
- 17 ‘Even if . . . ’
- 18 Backward Subjunctive Conditionals
- 19 Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow
- 20 Support Theories
- 21 The Need for Worlds
- 22 Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional
- 23 Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics