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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
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Certain and Uncertain Inference with Indicative Conditionals [PDF]

open access: green, 2022
Paul Égré, Lorenzo Rossi, Jan Sprenger
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Revisiting McGee’s Counterexample to Modus Ponens

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy
In this paper, we provide a novel explanation of McGee’s (1985) alleged counterexample to Modus Ponens for indicative conditionals. Our strategy is to show that pragmatic phenomena interfere with intuitions concerning the acceptability of the inference ...
Nicolás Lo Guercio, Mariela Rubin
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Dispoziční predikáty a lingvistická relativita

open access: yesFilozofia
Dispositions are unobserved properties of objects that may or may not manifest under certain conditions. These properties can be described using dispositional predicates, which typically require the use of conditional clauses.
Filip Tvrdý
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Condition Indicators for Gearbox Condition Monitoring Systems

open access: yesActa Polytechnica, 2005
Condition monitoring systems for manual transmissions based on vibration diagnostics are widely applied in industry. The systems deal with various condition indicators, most of which are focused on a specific type of gearbox fault. Frequently used condition indicators (CIs) are described in this paper.
P. Večeř, M. Kreidl, R. Šmíd
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Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol, 2023
Bourlier M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Indicative and counterfactual ‘only if’ conditionals

open access: yesActa Psychologica, 2009
We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a conditional of the form 'A only if B' compared to 'if A then B'. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative mood (e.g., A occurred only if B occurred) and counterfactuals in the subjunctive mood (A would have occurred only if B had occurred ...
Egan, Suzanne M.   +2 more
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Williamson on conditionals and testimony. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Stud, 2023
Krzyżanowska K, Douven I.
europepmc   +1 more source

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