Cans and Conditionals: A Rejoinder
N a recent issue of ANALYSIS,' Bruce Goldberg and Herbert Heidelberger have taken issue with an article of mine that also appeared in ANALYSIS.2 In that article I had assumed that Austin's argument,3 to the effect that ' I can if I choose' is not a causal conditional, was conclusive. I then attempted to show that the view, attributed by Austin to Moore, that 'I can' is analyzable as ' I shall if I choose ', where the latter is a causal conditional, is mistaken. The following quotation from my article expresses quite clearly, I believe, what I set out to do: