Real conditionals /
William G. Lycan offers a fresh approach to the long-running debate among philosophers and logicians about the best way to analyse and understand conditional sentences. Lycan attends not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their syntax, making use of insights from linguistic theo...
| Основен автор: | Lycan, William G. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Print version::
Real conditionals. |
Съдържание:
- The syntax of conditional sentences
- Truth conditions: the event theory
- Truth conditions: reality and modus ponens
- In defense of truth value
- A beautiful but false theory of 'even if'
- An unbeautiful but less easily refutable theory of 'even if'
- The 'indicative'/'subjunctive' distinction
- The riverboat puzzle
- Appendix: 'Nonconditional conditionals' (with Michael L. Geis)
- Revisionary postscript on non-conditional conditionals.