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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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Speech act conditionals in two works of Cicero: In Verrem and Ad Atticum
Pallas, 2016 The main objective of this paper is to elucidate how the protasis of speech act conditionals can be understood either as the explicitation of one of Grice’s conversational maxims or as one of Searle’s felicity conditions. Due to the theoretical framework
Rogelio Toledo Martin
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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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Conditionals as interpersonal devices in Late Modern English women’s scientific writing
Language Value, 2023 It is widely recognised that attaining best possible reception of one’s writing within the scientific community is among the main factors that contribute to the rhetorical profile of scientific prose.
Luis Puente-Castelo
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EPiC Series in Computing, 2018 We discuss the evaluation of conditionals. Under classical logic a conditional of the form "A implies B" is semantically equivalent to "not A or B". However, psychological experiments have repeatedly shown that this is not how humans understand and use conditionals.We introduce an innovative abstract reduction system under the three-valued Łukasiewicz ...
Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz +2 more
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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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Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023 AbstractThis paper investigates the implicative conditional, a connective intended to describe the logical behavior of an empirically defined class of natural language conditionals, also namedimplicative conditionals, which excludes concessive and some other conditionals.
Eric Raidl, Gilberto Gomes
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Conditional Random Quantities and Compounds of Conditionals [PDF]
Studia Logica, 2013 In this paper we consider finite conditional random quantities and conditional previsions assessments in the setting of coherence. We use a suitable representation for conditional random quantities; in particular the indicator of a conditional event $E|H$ is looked at as a three-valued quantity with values 1, or 0, or $p$, where $p$ is the probability ...
Angelo Gilio, Giuseppe Sanfilippo
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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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Conditionals and testimony [PDF]
Cognitive Psychology, 2020 Conditionals and conditional reasoning have been a long-standing focus of research across a number of disciplines, ranging from psychology through linguistics to philosophy. But almost no work has concerned itself with the question of how hearing or reading a conditional changes our beliefs.
Collins, Peter J. +4 more
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