id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kyblodmp4zcm3fjgpfzelmkzam Mauricio Suárez Fictions, Conditionals, and Stellar Astrophysics 2013 20 .pdf application/pdf 8784 445 51 fictional assumptions play an inferential role in models. framework for the fictions' inferential roles (since it provides the background conditions models sanction places the fictional assumptions in the antecedent A of what I have But in a different model the fictional assumptions appear the fictional assumptions in the antecedent, or as part of the background conditions. So, a fictional conditional with a false antecedent is acceptable if the fictional assumptions must be placed amongst the background conditions B. realist requirement that science establishes true conditionals with the fact that the truthvalues of antecedent and consequent are not always in agreement with a truth-functional and consequent), at least for the fictional conditionals one finds in scientific modelling conditional is not strictly a function of the truth-values of consequent and antecedent. the 'observable' facts in the consequents of these fictional conditionals are not typically determine whether the fictional assumptions appear amongst the background conditions ./cache/work_kyblodmp4zcm3fjgpfzelmkzam.pdf ./txt/work_kyblodmp4zcm3fjgpfzelmkzam.txt