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Conditional sentences are a key issue of logical reasoning whose full scope eludes material implication. Various authors have proposed logics based on a conditional connective gearing towards specific sentences such as counterfactuals. Unfortunately, most of such conditional logics are propositional and therefore lack expressiveness. We propose in this paper to extend such logics by means of propositional quantification.
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Besnard, P., Guinnebault, JM., Mayer, E. (1997). Propositional quantification for conditional logic. In: Gabbay, D.M., Kruse, R., Nonnengart, A., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning. FAPR ECSQARU 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035622
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