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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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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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On Indicative and Subjunctive Conditionals [PDF]
, 2015 At the center of the literature on conditionals lies the division between indicative and subjunctive conditionals, and Ernest Adams’ famous minimal pair: (1) If Oswald didn’t shoot Kennedy, someone else did. (2) If Oswald hadn’t shot Kennedy, someone else would have.
Justin Khoo, Khoo, Justin Donald
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Conditional advice and inducements : are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension? [PDF]
, 2011 Conditionals can implicitly convey a range of speech acts including promises, tips, threats and warnings. These are traditionally divided into the broader categories of advice (tips and warnings) and inducements (promises and threats). One consequence of
Stewart, Andrew J.; id_orcid +10 more
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Discriminant features and temporal structure of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 To fully define the grammar of American Sign Language (ASL), a linguistic model of its nonmanuals needs to be constructed. While significant progress has been made to understand the features defining ASL manuals, after years of research, much still needs
C Fabian Benitez-Quiroz +3 more
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Path Semantics for Indicative Conditionals [PDF]
, 2022 The literature on indicative conditionals contains two appealing views. The first is the selectional view: on this view, conditionals operate by selecting a single possibility, which is used to evaluate the consequent.
Santorio, Paolo
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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Conditionals and Theory Change: Revisions, Expansions and Additions
, 1989 This paper dwells upon formal models of changes of beliefs, or theories, which are expressed in languages containing a binary conditional connective. After defining the basic concept of a (non-trivial) belief revision model.
Rott, Hans
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A note on Mcgee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens
Principia: An International Journal of EpistemologyIn this article I will review McGee's famous counterexample to Modus Ponens and I will argue that it is not a real counterexample. I will claim that the problem lies in an infelicitous assertion of the second premise.
Mariela Rubin
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Pragmática, modo y condicionales
Crítica, 2018 In contrast with the logico-semantical analyses of conditional (Stalnaker, 1968; Lewis, 1973; Pollock, 1976), it is claimed in this paper that it is not possible to give a sound interpretation to such sentential structures if pragmatic factors are not ...
Eduardo Bustos Guadaño
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