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Burks’s logic of causal statements and his analysis of causal connections by means of it is one of the earliest attempts to apply modal logic to the analysis of a conditional statement (conditional, for short) ‘If A then B.’ Of course, the problem of conditionals was one of the major motives for C. I. Lewis when he began modal logic by means of symbolic technique; for, what he called ‘strict implication’ is a kind of conditional, and it was intended to capture the sense of ‘A logically implies B.’ And it is also true that Lewis himself was aware of the notion of causal necessity (he called it ‘real connection,’ though; see [9], bk. ii, ch. viii). But his systems of strict implication were meant for logical entailment, and he did not apply his symbolic technique to the analysis of causal or ‘real’ connections.
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Uchii, S. (1990). Burk’s Logic of Conditionals. In: Salmon, M.H. (eds) The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. Synthese Library, vol 206. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0987-8_11
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