Abstract
Standard two-valued truth-functional logic represents the ordinary language indicative conditional construction in a peculiar way. Indicative conditionals are ‘if-then’ constructions where the mood of the verb is indicative, examples being:
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If today is Friday, then the shops will be crowded.
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If you press that swelling, he feels pain.
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If we divide it into quadrants, all four can share it.
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See, e.g., David K. Lewis, Counterfactuals (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973).
Frank Jackson, Conditionals (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987).
See, e.g., Ernest W. Adams, ‘The Logic of Conditionals’, Inquiry, Vol. 8, (1965), pp. 166–97.
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Carr, B. (1991). The Paradoxes of Indicative Conditionals. In: Mahalingam, I., Carr, B. (eds) Logical Foundations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21232-3_3
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