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Ramsey test

The Ramsey test (also called the Ramsey test for conditionals) is a proposal for how to evaluate and accept conditional sentences of the form if p (then) q. Informally, the guiding idea is that, to decide whether to accept a conditional if-p-then-q in a given belief state K, one must hypothetically add p to K and revise K in a minimal and rational way to…

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Philosophy of languageSchema
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Conditional logicsBelief revision theoryDavid LewisRobert Stalnaker
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Negative and iterated Ramsey tests

Dynamic epistemic logics
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Frank P. Ramsey§ Possible-worlds semantics
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related to Later developments · 7
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Ramsey test → inspiration for an equivalence between a belief set's acceptance of a conditional and the consequent's membership in belief set after it is revised by the antecedent.Subsequent…, strategy to develop a semantics for conditionals

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