Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent from the truth of its antecedent, and (II) The conditional is true iff the inference would not make a true belief in the antecedent cause a false belief in the consequent.

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条件：真理、安全和成功

我是否采取一些旨在达到预期结果 C 的行动取决于我是否认为如果我这样做，我将导致 C，如果我不这样做，我将失败。当且仅当我的信念是真实的时，行动才会成功。我们论证了以下两个论点：（I）相信一个条件句是倾向于从其先行词的真实性中推断出它的结果，以及（II）如果该推理不会对前因词产生真实的信念，则该条件句为真对结果的错误信念。