What If Bizet and Verdi Had Been Compatriots?

Logos and Episteme 7 (1):55-73 (2016)
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Abstract

Stalnaker argued that conditional excluded middle should be included in the principles that govern counterfactuals on the basis that intuitions support that principle. This is because there are pairs of competing counterfactuals that appear to be equally acceptable. In doing so, he was forced to introduced semantic vagueness into his system of counterfactuals. In this paper it is argued that there is a simpler and purely epistemic explanation of these cases that avoids the need for introducing semantic vagueness into the semantics for counterfactuals.

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Michael Shaffer
Gustavus Adolphus College

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