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Ramsey test: a standalone construct

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Logic

the procedure of evaluating a conditional by hypothetically adding its antecedent to one's beliefs and checking whether the consequent then holds.

In logic, Ramsey test refers to the procedure of evaluating a conditional by hypothetically adding its antecedent to one's beliefs and checking whether the consequent then holds. This meaning comes from Stalnaker (1968) in IFS.[1]

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References

Stalnaker, R. C. (1968). A Theory of Conditionals. In IFS (pp. 41-55). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9117-0_2

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