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Curious Legal Conditionals [PDF]
, 2011 The paper examines the use of the modal verb SHALL in the if clauses of conditionals found in legal English. The study traces the history of such usages and compares them to two uses of WILL attested in the same grammatical environment: a temporal use ...
Berezowski, Leszek
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Ceteris paribus conditionals and comparative normalcy [PDF]
, 2006 Our understanding of subjunctive conditionals has been greatly enhanced through the use of possible world semantics and, more precisely, by the idea that they involve variably strict quantification over possible worlds. I propose to extend this treatment
Smith, M.
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Conditional independence, conditional mixing and conditional association [PDF]
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2007 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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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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Journal of Physiotherapy, 2023 This Editorial introduces another of Journal of Physiotherapy’s article collections.These are collections of papers on a particular topic, published in the Journal of Physiotherapy within the past decade and compiled to: facilitate access to important recent findings on the topic; highlight trends in research designs, methods, populations and ...
Freire, Ana Paula Coelho Figueira +1 more
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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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Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then” [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we investigate the influence of reason-relation readings of indicative conditionals and ‘and’/‘but’/‘therefore’ sentences on various cognitive assessments. According to the Frege-Grice tradition, a dissociation is expected.
Kellen, David +3 more
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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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Knowledge in the face of conspiracy conditionals [PDF]
, 2020 A plausible principle about the felicitous use of indicative conditionals says that there is something strange about asserting an indicative conditional when you know whether its antecedent is true.
Holguín, Ben
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