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Conditionals and indexical relativism

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I set out and defend a view on indicative conditionals that I call “indexical relativism”. The core of the view is that which proposition is (semantically) expressed by an utterance of a conditional is a function of (among other things) the speaker’s context and the assessor’s context. This implies a kind of relativism, namely that a single utterance may be correctly assessed as true by one assessor and false by another.

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Weatherson, B. Conditionals and indexical relativism. Synthese 166, 333–357 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-007-9283-5

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