title: A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals
author:  Jonathan Bennett 
description: <br>"The hulking literature on the logic and semantics of conditionals is cunning and daunting, and few thinkers on the world stage are equipped to coral and tame the beast as Bennet has... His writing is disarmingly casual and witty-quite remarkably so for such dense subject matter... Bennet's achievement is nothing less than monumental." -- <em>The Review of Metaphysics</em>
zlib_text: Chapter 11
  Conditionals
  Frank Jackson
  Examples of conditionals are: ‘If it rains, then the match will be canceled,’ ‘If
  Oswald did not shoot Kennedy, then someone else did,’ and ‘If Carter had been
  re-elected, the pundits would have been surprised.’ It is no straightforward matter
  to give a precise delineation of the class of conditional sentences. Conditionals do
  not have to contain the word ‘if.’ ‘No ticket, no start’ is a conditional (provided it
  is thought of as directed to some particular person, not as a covert universal saying
  that anyone without a union ticket will not be allowed to start). Nevertheless, we
  all have a reasonable intuitive grasp of the intended class of sentences, and that will
  suffice for our purposes here.
  Conditionals are typically formed by applying a dyadic sentential operator or
  connective. ‘If Mary went to the party, it was a success’ is the result of applying
  ‘if—, (then)—’ to the two sentences ‘Mary went to the party’ and ‘It was a
  success.’ The sentenc