Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition
Independence Conditionals
January 2023 • Nicole Cruz, David E. Over
Douven et al. (this volume) have replied to our critique (Over and Cruz this volume) of their version of truth condition inferentialism (TCI). They have generously allowed us to have the last word (in this volume) in this debate. Their TCI theory is that there must be a compelling argument from p, plus background information and not from this information alone, to q for a “standard” conditional, if p then q, to be true. This argument can be deductive, inductive, abductive, or possibly contain some other kind of st…