A LOGIC FOR ‘BECAUSE’ 论文
2011The Review of Symbolic Logic引用 228
Philosophy and Theoretical ScienceLogic, Reasoning, and KnowledgePhilosophy and History of Science
摘要
In spite of its significance for everyday and philosophical discourse, the explanatory connective ‘because’ has not received much treatment in the philosophy of logic. The present paper develops a logic for ‘because’ based on systematic connections between ‘because’ and the truth-functional connectives.