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Indicative Conditionals in Awareness Framework

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We propose a novel approach to capturing the acceptability conditions of indicative conditionals using awareness logic. Specifically, we posit that the relevance between the antecedent and consequent of a conditional is determined by the concomitant occurrence of their awareness. We provide a sound and complete axiomatization of the logic. We compare the properties of the indicative conditionals in our framework with other existing theories.

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    Tianyi Chu

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  1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Natasha Alechina

  2. CNRS, IRIT, Toulouse, France

    Andreas Herzig

  3. Shandong University, Jinan, China

    Fei Liang

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Chu, T. (2023). Indicative Conditionals in Awareness Framework. In: Alechina, N., Herzig, A., Liang, F. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14329. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45558-2_2

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