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Ramsey's tests

Barry Hartley Slater

pp. 431-444

Abstract

This paper starts by criticising some olderaccounts of conditionals based on the so-called `Ramsey Test', and ends by proposing their replacement, in part with a material account, in part with a probabilistic account using epsilon terms. The combined replacement is in fact closer to Ramsey's ideas. But there is also a resemblance between the latter and a more recent account of conditionals, which relates some of them to causality. The comparison provides a basis for assessment of the proposed replacement.

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(2004) Synthese 141 (3).

Pages: 431-444

DOI: 10.1023/B:SYNT.0000044995.88380.6a

Full citation:

Slater Barry Hartley (2004) „Ramsey's tests“. Synthese 141 (3), 431–444.