Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?
Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz · Linguistics Vanguard · 2022
Abstract In this paper we argue that the antecedent of a (non-analytic) conditional iscausallyrelevant to the consequent, … at least if standard background conditions hold. Natural counterexamples to the causal relevance analysis are argued to be cases where the standardly assumed background condition(s) do not hold.