Conditions

Journal of Philosophy 65 (12):355-364 (1968)
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Abstract

Critique of prevailing textbook conception of sufficient conditions and necessary conditions as a truth functional relation of material implication (p->q)/(~q->~p). Explanation of common sense conception of condition as correlative of consequence, involving dependence. Utility of this conception exhibited in resolving puzzles regarding ontology, truth, and fatalism.

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Roger Wertheimer
Agnes Scott College

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