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Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities

Published 1 January 1976
David Lewis
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Abstract

The truthful speaker wants not to assert falsehoods, wherefore he is willing to assert only what he takes to be very probably true. He deems it permissible to assert that A only if P(A) is sufficiently close to 1, where P is the probability function that represents his system of degrees of belief at the time. Assertability goes by subjective probability.

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