当代条件句逻辑研究的起点--Ramsey测验初探

A Beginning of the Study of Contemporary Conditional Logic——A Study on Ramsey Test

Ramsey测验以主观概率为基础,解释和刻画了自然语言的条件句意义理论,这种思想是一种构造条件句语义学的创造性设想,它描述了人们决定接受p后,是不是接受q,从而对他的其它信念作最小修正的问题。这种思想在上个世纪60年代以后引起了众多逻辑学家的重视,在当代条件句逻辑研究中居于主流观点的理论,就来源于这一论述。Ramsey测验的意义和理论价值是值得充分肯定的,但是,我们也不能过分拔高拉姆齐检验,而应该辩证的看待Ramsey测验在条件句逻辑研究中的作用。

Based on the subjective probability,Ramsey test explains and portrays meaning of conditionals in natural languages,which is a creative idea of constructing conditionals semantics.Ramsey test accounts for the question how someone decides whether to accept the consequent after he accepts the antecedent.The thought has aroused the numerous logicians' interest in the 1960s and has become a focus of study of conditional logic after that.Currently,it has already become the beginning of study of contemporary conditional logic.The significance and value of Ramsey test are worth fully affirming,but we should not excessively exalt it to an unnecessary position.We should view the significance of Ramsey test dialectically.