Miguel López-Astorga
Institute of Humanistic Studies “Juan Ignacio Molina”, University of Talca, Chile
Volume 7, Number 3, 2015 I Full Text PDF
Abstract
Diodorus Cronus and Philo of Megara presented criteria for identifying true conditionals. Diodorus’ criterion has been said to be a version of that of Philo requiring that the conditional is always true. However, in this paper, based on the mental models theory and its analysis of possibilities, I try to show that those two interpretations are very different and that they do not refer to the same combinations of possibilities. In my view, Philo’s account can be linked to the material interpretation of the conditional. Nevertheless, Diodorus’ explanation can be related to that very interpretation and, in addition, to three different combinations of possibilities, none of them being that corresponding to the material interpretation.
Keywords: conditional; Diodorus Cronus; mental models; Philo of Megara; possibilities Keep Reading
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