Fatalism and the logic of unconditionals. Bledin, J. Noûs, 54(1):126–161, 2020. ![Fatalism and the logic of unconditionals [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex In this paper, I consider a variant of the ancient Idle Argument involving so-called ``unconditionals'' with interrogative antecedents. This new Idle Argument provides an ideal setting for probing the logic of these close relatives of if-conditionals, which has been comparatively underexplored. In the course of refuting the argument, I argue that contrary to received wisdom, many unconditionals do not entail their main clauses, yet modus ponens is still unrestrictedly valid for this class of expressions. I make these lessons precise in a formal system drawing on recent work in inquisitive semantics. My larger aim is to challenge standard truth preservation accounts of logic and deductive argumentation.
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author = {Justin Bledin},
date-added = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
doi = {10.1111/nous.12257},
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