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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 October 2012
... the world would be like if one or another supposition were true). To capture this observation, this essay proposes that the semantic contents of conditionals be treated as sets of vectors of possible worlds, not singleton worlds, with the coordinates of each specifying the world that is or would be true...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 443–450.
Published: 01 July 2012
... for Conditionalization? Rachael Briggs’s “suppositional test” is supposed to differentiate between Diachronic DBAs that we can safely ignore (including the DBA for Reflection) and Diachronic DBAs that we should find compelling (including the DBA for Conditionalization). I argue that Brigg’s suppositional test is wrong...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (3): 323–348.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Eugene Mills Suppose you and I are “human beings” in the sense of human animals , members of the genus Homo . Given this supposition, this article argues first and foremost that (it's at least very plausible that) we originated not at the moment of our biological conception but either before...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 408–413.
Published: 01 July 2018
...? This is the presupposition projection problem. As Stalnaker explains (1), its consequent is interpreted relative to a derived context , created by the supposition that Mary has a sister. This context is derived from the CGC, by (hypothetically) adding this supposition to it. Hence, this context includes...
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 January 2022
.... This heuristic is what he calls the Suppositional Rule : to take an attitude unconditionally to ‘If A , C ’ just in case one takes that attitude conditionally to C on the supposition that A . Thus, when evaluating a conditional, we believe ‘If A , C ’ just in case we believe C under the supposition...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 311–313.
Published: 01 April 2002
... has parts apparently written in response to Ockham's Summa Logicae of c. 1323. The Longer Treatise, which sur- vives in a number of manuscripts and is directly quoted by some later sources, has two tracts. The first, on the properties of terms, discusses supposition the- ory and related issues...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 January 2014
... subjunctive supposition consistent with that set leaves members of the set unchanged (as in: ‘if the Earth were twice its current size, gravitational force would [still] be inversely proportional to the square of distance’). Lange proves (very nicely) that the subnomically stable sets form a hierarchy...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... But though I cannot distinguish what is true from what I think so, I can always distinguish what I mean by saying that it is true from what I mean by saying that I think so. For I understand the meaning of the supposition that what I think true may nevertheless be false. Moore...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (3): 307–339.
Published: 01 July 2016
... for the final degrees of belief” ( 2003, 364 ). Of course, on the supposition that “the final degrees of belief” are always calcluated by standard conditionalization, Arntzenius's thesis would follow from the theorem. But that supposition is highly controversial. We will return to these issues in section 4...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 425–427.
Published: 01 July 2001
... (one might conclude) the supposition that (Heads, Tails) is the solution implies a contradiction. Every other putative objective solution seems to imply a similar contradiction. Weirich bravely accepts the challenge of showing that this supposed reductio proof fails. The core of his argument...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 327–358.
Published: 01 July 2005
... to possibilia and abstracta. Both (i) and (iii) conflict with the idea of causation as counterfactual dependence. With (i), the supposition of the nonoc- currence of what does not actually occur simply leaves us at actuality and so does not entail the nonoccurrence of the wilting. With (iii...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 484–489.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., taking the bribe involves adopting a “sham credence” 0. To make this precise, Joyce imposes a ratifiability constraint on credal states: it’s rational to have a credal state C only if at some (hypothetical) prior time, on the supposition that you'll adopt C , the expected accuracy of adopting C...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 289–306.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of your act. Therefore the only O2-worlds that match any (O1 ^ L)-world at t must themselves be :L-worlds. By this fact and (12): (13) Some (O2 ^ :L)-world is closer to @ than any (O2 ^ L)-world. But by (2) and (13): (14) O2 ! :L. So O2 ! :L follows from the supposition (9...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 555–606.
Published: 01 October 2008
... function is a partial function from ordered pairs of sentences in the modeling language to the reals. The conditional credence P1(x | y)rep- resents the agent’s degree of belief at time t1 in the claim represented by x conditional on the supposition of the claim...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (3): 411–422.
Published: 01 July 2000
... Coil On the supposition that there is always positive moral value in promise keeping and negative moral value in promise breaking, Smith argues convincingly that Principle I implies that often Baker morally ought to make and keep the objectionable promise. Given that supposition, Baker’s...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (3): 432–434.
Published: 01 July 2004
... reports, Terms and Truth momentarily shifts to sim- ple sentences, such as ‘Vulcan is a small planet’. In the example on which Berger focuses, the introduction of the name ‘Vulcan’ is associated with a pre- supposition, or A-B sentence, such as there is a unique intra-Mercurial planet. From...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 586–588.
Published: 01 October 2002
... on the qualities and interrelations either of the atoms composing us or of those and other atoms. Accordingly, atoms do not cause everything that we cause. Therefore, there is no argument from causal redundancy against the supposition that we exist. (There also is no argument from causal redundancy...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 290–293.
Published: 01 April 2000
... and program- matic, is in many places quite illuminating. Tennant argues that the man- ifestation argument yields a crucial implication: from a requirement of manifestation and a supposition of bivalence to decidability. He cites the well-known undecidability of arithmetic to argue...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 554–557.
Published: 01 October 2018
...” ( Frankfurt 1969 , 829). On the supposition that moral responsibility attaches to actions, van Inwagen holds, Frankfurt has shown that someone could be morally responsible for an unavoidable action, contrary to what PAP implies. (I will assume familiarity with Frankfurt's article in what follows.) If, however...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 326–330.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in voluntary and that this is what distinguishes beliefs from states like imaginings and suppositions. While Zimmerman is careful to qualify that, even on his view, there are some beliefs we are powerless either to acquire or rescind (“You can't stop believing in the Earth beneath your feet” [81]), he wants...