In the context of conditional logics with connectives corresponding to a counterfactual conditional and a material conditional , the thesis
In formal conditional logics, assuming the validity of the simplification of disjunctive antecedents frequently has unattractive consequences. For example, whenever simplification of disjunctive antecedents is valid in a conditional logic and the substitution of provable equivalents is an admissible inference of , the inference of antecedent strengthening—an inference that conditional logic is expected to circumvent—is also admissible in .