This paper discusses the semantics of conditionals from the perspective of information and situation theory. The
paper is built around a number of trad-itional puzzles involving conditionals and
their logic. First it is argued that we need a unified account of conditionals, since all the problematic issues in the logic of natural language conditionals are problem-atic in mathematics for the just same sort of reasons. Secondly, it is proposed that conditional statements be interpreted as describing conditional constraints, that is, certain relations between types of sit-uations. The constraint is obtained in a
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straightforward manner from the meaning of the conditional sentence, but the con-ditions under which the constraint is assert to hold are fixed by context. The paper closes by showing the claims this proposal makes with regards to the traditional puzzles.
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