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MCMP – LogicWhat is Wrong with the Ramsey TestKarolina Krzyżanowska (MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (13 May, 2015) titled "What is Wrong with the Ramsey Test". Abstract: According to an influential idea of Frank Ramsey, known as the Ramsey Test, evaluating an indicative conditional, “If A then C,” amounts to evaluating the conditional’s consequent, C, on the supposition of its antecedent, A. This idea inspired a popular view among contemporary philosophers and psychologists that the only thing we learn when someone asserts a conditional is that the speaker believes the conditional’s consequent to be highly probable on the supposition that its antecedent holds. Though prima fac...2015-05-2800 min