Subjunctive conditionals
Modal interpretation of tense in subjunctive conditionals
... in subjunctive conditionals has a modal interpretation that shares an abstract structural property with the temporal ...The subjunctive form of the conditional contains the modally interpreted past ...
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On Indicative and Subjunctive Conditionals
... of subjunctive conditionals (or modals in the prejacent of past tense) is that there are only a few contexts (such as behavior-explaining/evaluating contexts) in which we care about past epistemic ...
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Subjunctive Conditionals are Material
... indicative conditionals are ...most subjunctive conditionals would be vacuously true, which is implausible; (2) its inconsistency with Adam pairs, which suggest that indicative and subjunctive ...
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Indicative And Subjunctive Conditionals
... of conditionals seem remarkably ...indicative conditionals; the last paper looks at a way in which our treatment of the two kinds of conditionals may be ...
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Was Quine right about subjunctive conditionals?
... problems as epistemicism in the case of vagueness (of which it is at least a cousin – perhaps more, if one views the source of indeterminacy of counterfactuals as arising entirely from vagueness). It is very hard to see ...
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DeRose on the conditionals of deliberation
... of conditionals (DeRose 2010): (i) One main function of conditionals is practical ...the conditionals suitable for expressing such deliberations? (ii) There is a fairly standard view according to ...
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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
... a subjunctive conditional should not meet the conditions imposed by the past tense; however, the conditional would then suffer from presupposition ...and subjunctive conditionals — as well as ...
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On Stalnaker's "Indicative Conditionals"
... and subjunctive conditional sentences diverge in ...that subjunctive conditionals feature one ingredient that is not present in indicatives: subjunctive ...
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Presuppositions and Antipresuppositions in Conditionals
... of subjunctive conditionals, it will not generate the implicature of antecedent ...indicative conditionals presuppose that there is an antecedent world in the common ground, while subjunctive ...
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Counteressential Conditionals
... §1.5). Subjunctive conditionals, since they are not truth functional, are among the intensional phenomena to be ...of subjunctive conditionals purely in terms of the extensional/categorical ...
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Causal conditionals and counterfactuals
... causal conditionals that re fl ected the causally related possibilities that they thought about: for instance, we expected that participants would rely on constructions that re fl ect the causal ...causal ...
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Conditionals in Late Egyptian
... these conditionals are exemplified and discussed (with a focus on P-clauses) in terms which aim to link relevant Egyptological work to linguistic work on ...
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If conditionals as modality attractors
... if- conditionals from the written BNC, and, as reference corpora, the written BNC Sampler, FLOB, all the if-sentences from the written sub-corpus of the BNC, and the non-conditional if-sentences from the ...
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The relevance effect and conditionals
... non-interference conditionals, where there is no apparent connection between A and C, is exactly as cases in which the context indicates that this default assumption is to be set aside (Skovgaard-Olsen, ...
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Counterfactuals as Strict Conditionals
... The Stalnaker-Lewis argument is a reductio: the thesis that coun- terfactuals are strict conditionals is taken to entail the absurd con- sequence that A1-A3 instantiate S1-S3. Therefore, in order to reject the ...
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Norm conflicts and conditionals
... Matthew. Say, Craig’s grandmother has a dog. And suppose further that it is still the case that Matthew invites Craig out to the movies. In that case, the conditional ‘If Craig’s grandmother has a dog, then Matthew will ...
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Do + subjunctive, future reference and modality in Albanian
... + subjunctive in Albanian, its time reference and the modal meaning it can express depending on the context in which it is ...+ subjunctive is nowhere treated as a modal form in present-day ...+ ...
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Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery
... conditionals are just conditionals.” I argue that Condoravdi and Lauer’s account fails in the face of a well-known problem, the problem of conflicting goals. Their proposed solution to the problem works in ...
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Exact Semantics for Indicative Conditionals
... extends his semantics to counterfactuals (2012a). Since his paper on counterfactuals precedes his general exposition of exact semantics, I take an anachronistic approach. However, this turns out to be more illuminating, ...
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If conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s cat
... To illustrate the point, I used the written BNC as a whole, as well as random samples of if-conditionals, non-conditional sentences, and when- constructions from it. These were subjected to (a) automatic and ...
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