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    Challenges→Indicative conditionals should be interpreted as conditional events

    Connexive theses like Aristotle's can be evaluated under possible-worlds semantics without assigning them probability 1, undermining the empirical argument.

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    • 1.Possible-worlds semantics can model necessity without probability 1 by restricting truth across accessible worlds, not requiring absolute certainty.
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    • 2.Aristotle's connexive theses describe logical constraints on conditionals, which are evaluable as true in some worlds without empirical universality.
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    • 3.The empirical argument conflates metaphysical necessity with empirical frequency, but logical truths need not hold in all actual cases.
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    • 1.If connexive theses lack probability 1, they fail to capture Aristotle's intended doctrine that contradictory antecedents make conditionals necessarily false.
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    • 2.Possible-worlds semantics requires determining which worlds are accessible; connexive logic's constraints become ad hoc without empirical grounding.
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    • 3.Assigning sub-certainty to logical principles undermines their function as constraints on valid reasoning, collapsing into mere conventions.
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