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van McGee's Counterexample, Probability, and Equivocation (반 멕기의 반례, 확률, 그리고 애매성)

  • Choi, Wonbae
    • Korean Journal of Logic
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.233-251
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    • 2016
  • In their recent paper published in this journal Shin Kim and Jinyong Lee have attacked some previous studies on the counterexample to modus ponens. Among their arguments I would like to discuss the following two; first, those attempts to explain van McGee's example by reference to conditional probability do not accord with van McGee's position, second, van McGee'e example is to be best seen as an argument containing the fallacy of equivocation. I show that the first argument is not correct, the second one is not so persuasive as it seemed first.

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