Conditioning against the grain. Abduction and indicative conditionals (Q704039)
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Conditioning against the grain. Abduction and indicative conditionals (English)
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12 January 2005
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The author proposes that the identity of conditional probability and the probability of a conditional can be saved, even for alleged counterexamples, by offering a deviant reading of the conditional probability according to which it is preceded by an abductive inference. The difference between the two readings of the conditional, according to the author, is ``systematic and predictable.''
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