Sly Pete in Dynamic Semantics

In ‘Sly Pete’ or ‘standoff’ cases, reasonable speakers accept incompatible conditionals, and communicate them successfully to a trusting hearer. This paper uses the framework of dynamic semantics offer new model conversational dynamics at play in standoffs, articulate several puzzles posed by such cases. The resolves these embracing for according which indicative conditionals require that their antecedents are possible local context, update this body information eliminating possibilities where antecedent is true consequent false. way, analysis draws on insights from material conditional contextualist analyses, while explaining how standoffs genuine disagreements.