Conditionals in Context

Name: Conditionals in Context
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ISBN: 9780262572316

ISBN-10: 0262572311

ISBN-13: 9780262572316

Edition: 2005

Authors: Christopher Gauker

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"If you turn left at the next corner, you will see a blue house at the end of the street." That sentence -- a conditional -- might be true even though it is possible that you will not see a blue house at the end of the street when you turn left at the next corner. A moving van may block your view; the house may have been painted pink; a crow might swoop down and peck out your eyes. Still, in some contexts, we might ignore these possibilities and correctly assert the conditional. In this book, Christopher Gauker argues that such context-relativity is the key to understanding the semantics of conditionals. Contexts are defined as objective features of the situation in which a conversation…

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List price: $8.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



The Basic Idea



The Context-Relativity of Conditionals



Conversations in the Abstract



Primitive Contexts



Multicontexts and Conditionals



Indicative Conditionals versus Material Conditionals



Subjunctive Conditionals



Strong Assertibility



Two Stipulations



Foundations



My Argumentative Strategy



The Concept of Logical Validity



Arguments versus Inferences



Validity as a Matter of Form



The Model-Theoretic Conception of Validity



The Context-Logical Conception of Logical Validity



Does This Conception Do Any Better?



Conditionals as Context-Relative Rules of Inference



A Catalog of Argument Forms



Critical Comparisons



The Received View



Stalnaker's Theory



The Barwise-Lycan Theory



Lowe's Theory



Veltman's Theory



The Core Theory



Definitions and Conditions



Examples



Some Basic Theorems



A Key Result



The Rationales for Certain Features



Some Shortcomings of the Core Theory



Two Enhancements



Strong Assertibility



Conditional Tautologies



Subjunctive Conditionals



The Grammatical Distinction



The Formal Theory of Subjunctive Conditionals



Examples



A Couple of Enhancements



"Even If", et cetera



"Even If"



Quantified Conditionals



"Only If"



Order Effects



Conditionals with Conditional Antecedents



Decidability



Preliminaries



The Algorithm



Examples



Why the Algorithm Works


References