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, 2021 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.
van Rooij, R., Schulz, K.
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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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A Probabilistic Truth-Conditional Semantics for Indicative Conditionals [PDF]
Studia Semiotyczne, 2022 In my article, I present a new version of a probabilistic truth prescribing semantics for natural language indicative conditionals. The proposed truth conditions can be paraphrased as follows: an indicative conditional is true if the corresponding ...
Michał Sikorski
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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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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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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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Sensitivity to speaker control in the online comprehension of conditional tips and promises: an eye-tracking study [PDF]
, 2013 Statements of the form if...then.... can be used to communicate conditional speech acts such as tips and promises. Conditional promises require the speaker to have perceived control over the outcome event while conditional tips do not. In an eye-tracking
Stewart, Andrew J.; id_orcid +5 more
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On Stalnaker's "Indicative Conditionals" [PDF]
, 2022 This paper is a guide to the main ideas and innovations in Robert Stalnaker's "Indicative Conditionals". The paper is for a volume of essays on twenty-one classics of formal semantics edited by Louise McNally and Zoltàn Gendler ...
Cariani, Fabrizio
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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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Attenuating NPIs in indicative and counterfactual conditionals
, 2022 The antecedent of conditionals is well-established as a licenser of weak negative polarity items (NPIs), but comparatively less attention has been paid to potential differences between indicative and counterfactual conditionals in this regard.
Schwab, Juliane, Liu, Mingya
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