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Indicative Conditionals and Graded Information
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2019 The paper proposes a model of indicative conditional by combining features of minimal change semantics and information semantics. The paper analyses in detail the following properties (desiderata) for conditionals: 1. No trivialization 2. Factual modus ponens and modus tollens 3. Import-export 4. No modus ponens for iterated conditionals 5.
Ivano Ciardelli
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Indicative conditionals: probabilities and relevance [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2021 AbstractWe propose a new account of indicative conditionals, giving acceptability and logical closure conditions for them. We start from Adams’ Thesis: the claim that the acceptability of a simple indicative equals the corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false and refuted by empirical research.
Francesco Berto, Aybüke Özgün
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Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Both indicative and counterfactual conditionals are known to be licensing contexts for negative polarity items (NPIs). However, a recent theoretical account suggests that the licensing of attenuating NPIs like English all that in the conditional ...
Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu
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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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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 We argue that counterfactuals and indicative conditionals are not so different. Certain notorious differences previously observed between pairs of indicative and counterfactual sentences are actually due to the presence of an anti-abductive modal ...
Samuel Cumming
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Indicative Conditionals and Dynamic Epistemic Logic [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017 Recent ideas about epistemic modals and indicative conditionals in formal semantics have significant overlap with ideas in modal logic and dynamic epistemic logic.
Wesley H. Holliday, Thomas F. Icard III
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Indicative Conditionals and Epistemic Luminosity [PDF]
Mind, 2021 Abstract Kevin Dorst has recently pointed out an apparently puzzling consequence of denying epistemic luminosity: given some natural-sounding bridging principles between knowledge, credence, and indicative conditionals, the denial of epistemic luminosity licenses the knowledge and assertability of abominable-sounding conditionals of the ...
Hewson, M, Kirkpatrick, JR
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A Study of Cohesion in the Syntactic Structure of Poetry of Resistance: A Case Study of Bseiso, al-Fitoori, and al-Saegh’s Poems [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2022 Introduction: The cohesion of poetic elements is one of the factors contributing to the organic unity of odes. Poetic cohesion is the result of various elements, especially coordinating conjunctions.
Vahid Mirzaie +2 more
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Glossa, 2023 This paper investigates the semantics of Old English swa 'so'. The word is indicative of diverse sentence interpretations (for example as equatives, conditionals and subordinate clauses of manner). Compositional semantic analysis reveals that nonetheless,
Sigrid Beck
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Nonexistence and Aboutness: The Bandersnatches of Dubuque
Crítica, 2020 Holmes exists is false. How can this be, when there is no one for the sentence to misdescribe? Part of the answer is that a sentence’s topic depends on context.
Stephen Yablo
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