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This paper starts by criticising some olderaccounts of conditionals based on the so-called `Ramsey Test', and ends by proposing their replacement, in part with a material account, in part with a probabilistic account using epsilon terms. The combined replacement is in fact closer to Ramsey's ideas. But there is also a resemblance between the latter and a more recent account of conditionals, which relates some of them to causality. The comparison provides a basis for assessment of the proposed replacement.
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Slater, B.H. Ramsey's Tests. Synthese 141, 431–444 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SYNT.0000044995.88380.6a
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