Conditionals: Inference and Relevance [Spanish]

Authors

  • Eduardo Rincón Alfonso Pontifical Xavierian University image/svg+xml
  • Miguel Ángel Pérez Jiménez Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá,Colombia)

Abstract

In this paper we discuss three semantic formulations of conditional: material, strict and relevant. Our aim is to show that the relevant conditional shapes our intuitions better than the other two. Since the semantic interpretation of the relevant conditional is an unsettled issue nowadays, we propose a pragmatic interpretation of it. In the first part of the paper we present the criteria to which a theory of conditionals must answer, i.e. the theory must not overgenerate. In the second one, we show that the material and the strict conditionals overgenerate because both lead to paradoxes. In the last part we show that the relevant conditional with a pragmatic interpretation solves the problem of the other conditionals.


Author Biographies

  • Eduardo Rincón Alfonso, Pontifical Xavierian University

    Egresado de la carrera de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Actualmente se desempeña como profesor de Filosofía en el Seminario Conciliar de Bogotá y cursa la maestría de Filosofía en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Su investigación actual es acerca de la filosofía del lenguaje y la filosofía de la lógica.

  • Miguel Ángel Pérez Jiménez, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá,Colombia)
    Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de Granada (España). Profesor asociado del Departamento de Filosofía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. Sus líneas de investigación son la filosofía del lenguaje, pura y aplicada, la lógica, la filosofía de la psicología, y autores como Donald Davidson, Ludwig
    Wittgenstein y Robert Brandom.
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Published

2018-04-23

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No. 29 (2018): July-December

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