Hurford Conditionals
Matthew Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli · Journal of Semantics · 2017
Compare the following conditionals: Bad #If John is not in Paris, he is in France. Good If John is in France, he is not in Paris. (1) If ¬p+, then p. We argue that existing theories of informational oddness do not distinguish between Bad and Good. We do not have an account of the divergence in judgments about the two, but we think this is a fascinating puzzle which we pose here in the hope others will be able to solve it.