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Counterfactual Conditionals

Late Egyptian Counterfactual Conditionals and Counterfactual Reasoning

Late Egyptian Counterfactual Conditionals and Counterfactual Reasoning

... Egyptian counterfactual condi- tionals and how they are used in counterfactual reasoning, I will be looking in more detail at the steps in understanding these conditionals than is usual in ...with ...

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Deductive reasoning with factual, possible and counterfactual conditionals

Deductive reasoning with factual, possible and counterfactual conditionals

... for counterfactual and nonfactual conditionals, the presupposed factual situation is represented explic- itly as well as the temporarily supposed counterfactual situation (Johnson-Laird & Byrne, ...

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Opportunity cost, excess profit and counterfactual conditionals

Opportunity cost, excess profit and counterfactual conditionals

... Counterfactual conditionals are cognitive tools that we incessantly use during our lives for judgments, evaluations, ...the counterfactual state is not univocal and that Magni’s approach retains ...

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Probabilistic language in indicative and counterfactual conditionals

Probabilistic language in indicative and counterfactual conditionals

... and counterfactual conditionals that have in their consequents probability operators: probable, likely, more likely than not, 50% chance and so ...probabilistic conditionals using a Kratzerian syntax ...

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The effect of focused communication tasks on instructed acquisition of English past counterfactual conditionals

The effect of focused communication tasks on instructed acquisition of English past counterfactual conditionals

... unreal conditionals, then its members might have had prob- lems with the development of implicit knowledge, even though they managed to improve with regard to explicit knowledge of this targeted ...unreal ...

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Counterfactual Conditionals : Orthodoxy and its Challenges

Counterfactual Conditionals : Orthodoxy and its Challenges

... ‘were’ed-up conditionals are too close to each other to be placed on ‘opposite sides of the great semantic ...subjunctive conditionals as it is manifested in past-directed Adams ...indicative ...

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Counterfactual Probability

Counterfactual Probability

... indicative conditionals and counterfactual conditionals boil down to differences in what is held ...a counterfactual, we hold fixed a contextually-determined subset of our ...

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Causal conditionals and counterfactuals

Causal conditionals and counterfactuals

... junctive conditionals is ...and counterfactual conditionals that express different causal re- ...causal conditionals in the indicative and the subjunctive ...causal conditionals without ...

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Counterfactual desirability

Counterfactual desirability

... introducing counterfactual conditionals to Jeffrey’s theory, let us first briefly explain why introducing indicative conditionals to Jeffrey’s theory (as ...the conditionals that generate the ...

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Counterfactual Desirability

Counterfactual Desirability

... introducing counterfactual conditionals to Jeffrey’s theory, let us first briefly explain why introducing indicative conditionals to Jeffrey’s theory (as done, for example, in Bradley [1998], [2007]) ...

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Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals

Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals

... of counterfactual conditionals are typically attended by the information that their antecedents are ...of counterfactual antecedent falsity and argues that the problem can be addressed by appeal to ...

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Counterfactual Dependence and Arrow

Counterfactual Dependence and Arrow

... for counterfactual conditionals has been highly popular, at least among those philosophers who believe that counterfactuals have ...a counterfactual is non-vacuously true in the actual world if and ...

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Conversation and conditionals

Conversation and conditionals

... of conditionals—concerning so-called ‘reverse Sobel sequences’—in a theory-neutral ...or counterfactual conditionals, as well as to other truth-conditional accounts of ...indicative ...

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Conditionals and Testimony

Conditionals and Testimony

... of conditionals. These include indicative conditionals (Evans et ...causal conditionals (Over et ...and counterfactual conditionals (Over et ...on conditionals more generally has ...

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Processing counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals: An fMRI investigation

Processing counterfactual and hypothetical conditionals: An fMRI investigation

... Although counterfactual thought has been argued to differ from processing factual or hypothetical informa- tion, imaging data which elucidate these differences on a neural level are still ...processing ...

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On Stalnaker's "Indicative Conditionals"

On Stalnaker's "Indicative Conditionals"

... Stalnaker’s Indicative Conditionals (1975, henceforth ic ) is not primarily about conditionals. I would call this a “secret” if Stalnaker didn’t go to some lengths to tell us himself, emphasizing that the ...

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Thomason (Un)conditionals

Thomason (Un)conditionals

... indicative conditionals with contradictory consequents – Gibbard’s (1981) Sly Pete and Bennett’s (2003) Top Gate example are two well-known ...in conditionals (Schlenker, ...Thomason conditionals is ...

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Indicative And Subjunctive Conditionals

Indicative And Subjunctive Conditionals

... Credit goes to Scott Sturgeon, in whose seminar at the University of Michigan I first thought that conditionals were interesting. This dissertation benefited at the early stage from the quick mind and stern ...

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Subjunctive Conditionals are Material

Subjunctive Conditionals are Material

... These arguments, however, face many objections. It is arguable that the example of Kennedy’s killer is only plausible if we confuse conditionals’ truth conditions with the reasons one has to accept them. The ...

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Natural Language Conditionals

Natural Language Conditionals

... 3.3. CONCLUSION 67 not know that the presence of oxygen is necessary for the process to take place (though she does take good care to store her matches in a dry place). Now, of course, linguistic meaning being determined ...

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