Safety and the true-true problem

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2013

Abstract

Standard accounts of semantics for counterfactuals confront the true-true problem: when the antecedent and consequent of a counterfactual are both actually true, the counterfactual is automatically true. This problem presents a challenge to safety-based accounts of knowledge. In this paper, drawing on work by Angelika Kratzer, Alan Penczek, and Duncan Pritchard, we propose a revised understanding of semantics for counterfactuals utilizing machinery from generalized quantifier theory which enables safety theorists to meet the challenge of the true-true problem. © 2012 The Authors. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly © 2012 University of Southern California and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly

First Page

246

Last Page

267

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