拉姆齐的《迷失的反事实

IF 0.5 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

History and Philosophy of Logic Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI:10.1080/01445340.2022.2110011

Caterina Sisti

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摘要

在当代关于条件句的著作中，拉姆齐测试是一种评估条件句的程序。该测试有几个版本，所有版本的灵感都来自英国哲学家和数学家弗兰克·拉姆齐在其《一般命题与因果关系》中的脚注。然而，到目前为止，还没有关于拉姆齐自己对条件句的描述的研究。此外，脚注似乎只涵盖了指示性条件句，这导致人们相信在拉姆齐的作品中找不到对反事实的解释。在本文中，我恢复了拉姆齐对反事实的描述，并表明它在脚注中也有概述。其结果是对反事实的详尽描述，类似于许多当代的反事实。但拉姆齐对其他类型的条件句也使用了同样的方法，这让人们对目前这类句子的分类标准产生了怀疑。

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Ramsey's Lost Counterfactual

In contemporary works on conditionals, the Ramsey test is a procedure for the evaluation of conditional sentences. There are several versions of the test, all inspired by a footnote by the British philosopher and mathematician Frank Ramsey, in his General Propositions and Causality. However, no study on Ramsey's own account of conditionals has been put forth so far. Furthermore, the footnote seems to cover indicative conditionals only, and this has led to the belief that no account of counterfactuals can be found in Ramsey's work. In this paper, I recover Ramsey's account of counterfactuals and show that it is sketched in the footnote too. The result is a well-developed account of counterfactuals that resembles many contemporary ones. But Ramsey uses the same approach also for other types of conditionals, and this casts doubts on the current criteria for the classification of this type of sentences.

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History and Philosophy of Logic 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学

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期刊介绍： History and Philosophy of Logic contains articles, notes and book reviews dealing with the history and philosophy of logic. ’Logic’ is understood to be any volume of knowledge which was regarded as logic at the time in question. ’History’ refers back to ancient times and also to work in this century; however, the Editor will not accept articles, including review articles, on very recent work on a topic. ’Philosophy’ refers to broad and general questions: specialist articles which are now classed as ’philosophical logic’ will not be published. The Editor will consider articles on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, but the component of logic must be substantial. Topics with no temporal specification are to be interpreted both historically and philosophically. Each topic includes its own metalogic where appropriate.