Undercutting and the Ramsey test for conditionals

André Fuhrmann

Isaac Levi

pp. 157-169

in: Synthese 101 (2), 1994.

Abstract

There is an important class of conditionals whose assertibility conditions are not given by the Ramsey test but by an inductive extension of that test. Such inductive Ramsey conditionals fail to satisfy some of the core properties of plain conditionals. Associated principles of nonmonotonic inference should not be assumed to hold generally if interpretations in terms of induction or appeals to total evidence are not to be ruled out.