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Defence of Adams's thesis that indicative conditionals with false antecedents lack truth values. Comparison of this with the analogous thesis about moral judgements; discussion of the difference between expressing and asserting in the context of Gricean ideas about meaning.
Keywords: Adams; conditionals; false antecedent; Grice; indicative; meaning; moral judgement
Chapter. 9285 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Philosophy of Language
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