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, 2020 In this chapter on indicative conditionals, we focus on two central challenges that any analysis of indicative conditionals must meet, instead of writing (yet another) general overview. The first is the challenge of accounting for the non-monotonic inference pattern that conditionals in general display.
Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz
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De Finettian Logics of Indicative Conditionals Part I: Trivalent Semantics and Validity [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2020 Paul Egré, Lorenzo Rossi, Jan Sprenger
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Do Indicative Conditionals Express Propositions?
Noûs, 2011 In this paper I will focus on the question of what theoretical object we should use to represent the meaning of certain sentences. In particular, I will focus on the question of whether we should use propositions to represent the meaning of indicative conditionals. Before getting into this question I’ll try to locate it in the broader scheme of things.
Daniel Rothschild
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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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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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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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Assumptions, Hypotheses, and Antecedents
Dialectica, 2022 This paper is about the distinction between arguments and conditionals, and the corresponding distinction between premises and antecedents. I will also propose a further distinction between two different kinds of argument, and, correspondingly, two ...
Vladan Djordjevic
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Denying Antecedents and Affirming Consequents: The State of the Art
Informal Logic, 2015 Recent work on conditional reasoning argues that denying the antecedent [DA] and affirming the consequent [AC] are defeasible but cogent patterns of argument, either because they are effective, rational, albeit heuristic applications of Bayesian ...
David Godden, Frank Zenker
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