Strawson on 'If' and

• This paper is concerned with Sir Peter Strawson-s critical discussion of Paul Grice-s defence of the material implication analysis of conditionals. It argues that although Strawson-s own -consequentialist- suggestion concerning the meaning of conditionals cannot be correct, a related and radically contextualist account is able to both account for the phenomena that motivated Strawson-s consequentialism, and to undermine the material implication analysis by providing a simpler account of the processes that we go through when interpreting conditionals.

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HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

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conditionals

material implication

contextualism

Sir Peter Strawson

Paul Grice

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conditionals

material implication

contextualism

Sir Peter Strawson

Paul Grice

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