Real conditionals:
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1. Verfasser: Lycan, William G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Clarendon Press 2005
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Beschreibung:Originally published: 2001
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index
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
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 theory. Real Conditionals is the definitive presentation of Lycan's view, written in his characteristically lively style. - ;Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences. William G. Lycan has a distinctive approach to this debate, attending no
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