Indicative Conditionals as Epistemic Filter Conditionals

Studies in Logic, Vol. 15, No. 6 (2022): 1–16   PII: 1674­3202(2022)­06­0001­16

Fei Liang   Wenfang Wang

Abstract.

Deng & Lee (2021) recently give an “extrapolationist” causal­modeling account of the semantics of indicative conditionals. It requires us to have a priority relation on variables and to calculate the induced ordering for submodels, in terms of which the set of minimally extrapolated submodels is defined to account for the semantics of indicative conditionals. In this paper, the authors argue that this extrapolationist proposal has unnecessary complexity and may yield incorrect results first, and then offer an “epistemic filter” account of indicative conditionals that, the authors believe, can successfully avoid these problems.