• DOI:10.1007/978-94-009-9117-0_6
Corpus ID: 170820263

Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities

@article{Lewis1976ProbabilitiesOC,
  title={Probabilities of Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities},
  author={D. Lewis},
  journal={The Philosophical Review},
  year={1976},
  volume={85},
  pages={129-147}
}

D. Lewis

Published 1976

Mathematics

The Philosophical Review

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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.