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David Lewis has recently developed the notion of conversational score-keeping as a way of explaining the acceptability of utterances in various contexts and the manner in which this acceptability changes in a rule-governed manner. I will expand Lewis's discussion by showing how the acceptibility of conditionals is linked to conversational score. In particular, I will argue that at least one controversial issue concerning the logic of conditionals, the interpretation and use of conditionals with disjunctive antecedents, may be resolved by applying Lewis's notion of an accommodation rule for conversational scorekeeping.
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Nute, D. Conversational scorekeeping and conditionals. J Philos Logic 9, 153–166 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00247746
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00247746