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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Björnsson on Strawson and Grice in a South African journal (2008)

"This paper is concerned with P. F. Strawson's critical

discussion of H. P. 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."

which is enough to make you want to say, "If only ..."

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