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Imagined Hierarchies as Conditionals of Gender in Aesthetics [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2016 The attributes of gender in the media are disputable. This can be explained by a conflict generated by culturally acquired alternative imagined hierarchies which are not compatible or may be even contradictory.
Adrian Mróz
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Phenomenology and Mind, 2017 Thomason conditionals are sentences of the form if p, ~Kp. Given plausible assumptions, these sentences cause trouble for epistemic theories of indicative conditionals.
Andrés Soria Ruiz
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Chrysippus’ Conditional Captured from a Non-Axiomatic Computer Program [PDF]
Organon FIt is usually accepted that Chrysippus of Soli proposed the “connexivist view” of the conditional. I assume here that Chrysippus also supported the “inclusion view” and that differentiated between two kinds of conditionals: strong and weak conditionals ...
Miguel López-Astorga
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper introduces and analyzes chimerical conditionals, a class of conditionals that are puzzling vis-à-vis the distinction between so-called 'biscuit' and hypothetical conditionals.
Itamar Francez
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Restriction without Quantification: Embedding and Probability for Indicative Conditionals
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Many modern theories of indicative conditionals treat them as restricted epistemic necessity modals. This view, however, faces two problems. First, indicative conditionals do not behave like necessity modals in embedded contexts, e.g., under ‘might’ and ‘
Ivano Ciardelli
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Operators or restrictors? A reply to Gillies
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 According to operator theories, "if" denotes a two-place operator. According to restrictor theories, "if" doesn't contribute an operator of its own but instead merely restricts the domain of some co-occurring quantifier.
Justin Khoo
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Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016 The Stoics not only analyzed sentences showing to be clear conditionals. They also reviewed other kinds of sentences related to the conditional that are not exactly conditionals, for example, the pseudo-conditionals and the causal assertibles.
Miguel López-Astorga
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If-conditional sentences across Asian Englishes
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 This study explored the syntactic and semantic analysis of if-conditional sentences in the International Corpus of English (ICE). Using the three corpora of Asian varieties of English such as ICE-PHI (PhilE), ICE-HK (HKE), and ICE-SING (SingE) that have
Ariel Robert Ponce, Shirley N. Dita
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Three experiments tracked participants’ eye-movements to examine the time course of comprehension of the dual meaning of counterfactuals, such as “if there had been oranges then there would have been pears.” Participants listened to conditionals while ...
Isabel Orenes +4 more
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