@article {Hawthorne:April 1996:0022-3611:185, author = "Hawthorne J.", title = "On the Logic of Nonmonotonic Conditionals and Conditional Probabilities^1", journal = "Journal of Philosophical Logic", volume = "25", year = "April 1996", abstract = "
I will describe the logics of a range of conditionals that behave like conditional probabilities at various levels of probabilistic support. Families of these conditionals will be characterized in terms of the rules that their members obey. I will show that for each conditional, \to, in a given family, there is a probabilistic support level r and a conditional probability function P such that, for all sentences C and B, C\to B holds just in case P[B\mid C]\geqslant r. Thus, each conditional in a given family behaves like conditional probability above some specific support level.
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