Infelicitous Conditionals and KK

Abstract Kevin Dorst (2019) uses the ‘manifest unassertability’ of conditionals of the form ‘If I don’t know p, then p’ as a new motivation for the KK thesis. In this paper we show that his argumentation is misguided. Plausible heuristics offer a compelling and nuanced explanation of the relevant in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mind 2024-01, Vol.133 (529), p.196-209
Hauptverfasser: Hawthorne, John, Isaacs, Yoaav
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract Kevin Dorst (2019) uses the ‘manifest unassertability’ of conditionals of the form ‘If I don’t know p, then p’ as a new motivation for the KK thesis. In this paper we show that his argumentation is misguided. Plausible heuristics offer a compelling and nuanced explanation of the relevant infelicity data. Meanwhile, Dorst relies on tools that, quite independently of KK, turn out to be rather poor predictors of the infelicity of indicative conditionals.
ISSN:0026-4423
1460-2113
DOI:10.1093/mind/fzad046