Barristers in England are obliged to follow the ‘cab rank rule’, according to which they must take any case offered to them, as long as they have time in their schedule and can agree on fees. This rule is designed to ensure that unpopular people and causes can get legal representation. In philosophy, by contrast, we know we need no structural rule to ensure that seemingly hopeless causes receive representation from the brightest minds. And so we find Timothy Williamson, who famously defended epistemicism about vagueness over a quarter of a century ago, turning in his new book to another unpopular cause, the view that the meaning of ‘if’ is given by...

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生活在物质世界：假设和讲述的批判性通知：蒂莫西·威廉姆森的条件句的语义和启发式

英格兰的大律师有义务遵守“出租车等级规则”，根据该规则，他们必须接受提供给他们的任何案件，只要他们有时间安排并且可以就费用达成一致。该规则旨在确保不受欢迎的人和事业可以获得法律代理。相比之下，在哲学中，我们知道我们不需要结构性规则来确保看似无望的原因得到最聪明的人的代表。因此，我们发现蒂莫西·威廉姆森 (Timothy Williamson) 在 25 年前以模糊性为认识论辩护而闻名，他在他的新书中转向另一个不受欢迎的原因，即“如果”的含义是由……