Title

The Failure of the Ramsey Test

Author

John N. WILLIAMS, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

11-2005

Abstract

Adam Morton recently argued that the Ramsey test of whether we may accept a conditional as true embodies a misunderstanding of the function of indicative conditionals (2004: 294). I attack the Ramsey Test for different reasons; there are conditionals that we should accept as true that the Ramsey Test tells us to reject and there are conditionals that we should reject that the Ramsey Test tells us to accept.

Discipline

Philosophy

Research Areas

Humanities

First Page

1

Last Page

7

Publisher

Singapore Management University

City or Country

Singapore

Citation

WILLIAMS, John N., "The Failure of the Ramsey Test" (2005). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 79.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/79

Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/79

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