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    Indicative conditionals should be interpreted as conditional events

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    • 1.Empirical findings on Aristotle's theses are strong evidence for the conditional event interpretation
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    • 2.The conditional event interpretation predicts that people should strongly believe Aristotle's theses are valid
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    • 3.The only coherent probability assessment for Aristotle's theses under the conditional event interpretation is probability value 1
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    • 1.Stalnaker and Lewis's possible-worlds semantics assigns truth conditions to conditionals independently of any probabilistic framework.
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    • 2.If conditionals have determinate truth values in worlds where the antecedent is false, they cannot be mere conditional events lacking truth values.
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    • 3.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.Edgington's conditional event interpretation entails that conditionals are not genuine propositions and cannot embed in complex Boolean contexts.
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    • 2.Natural language permits conditionals to appear as antecedents of other conditionals, as in 'If (if p then q) then r', which requires propositional embedding.
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    • 3.A semantics that cannot compositionally handle iterated conditionals fails a basic adequacy condition for any serious theory of indicative conditionals.
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    Empirical studies on Aristotle’s theses have been carried out by Pfeifer (2012), Pfeifer and Tulkki (2017), and Pfeifer and Yama (2017). In one experiment, presented in Pfeifer 2012, the sample consisted of 141 psychology students (110 females and 31 males) at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Both AT and AT′ were tested as abstract as well as concrete indicative conditionals. In a second experiment, 40 students without training in logic (20 females and 20 males) had to solve tasks involving
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