Indicative conditionals appear to lie on a continuum, with the subjective and information-based on one side, and the objective and fact-based on the other. Attempts to bring them all under the same theoretical umbrella usually start at the subjective end; conditionals get more objective as they come to be based in higher-quality, less parochial, information. I propose to go in the other direction, looking rst for a class of \absolute" conditionals, then bringing in other conditionals by relaxing the constraints dening that class. (A plan of action is laid out at the end of section 4. The nal footnote of each section sketches the contents of the next.) 1

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Ifs、Ands 和 Buts：指示性条件的增量真理制造者语义

指示性条件似乎位于一个连续体上，一方面是主观和基于信息，另一方面是客观和基于事实。试图将它们都归入同一个理论保护伞的尝试通常始于主观目的；条件句变得更加客观，因为它们基于更高质量、更少狭隘的信息。我建议朝另一个方向走，首先寻找一类“绝对”条件，然后通过放宽定义该类的约束来引入其他条件。（行动计划在第 4 节末尾列出。最终每节的脚注勾勒下一节的内容。）1