59. Conditionals

Fintel, Kai von

doi:10.1515/9783110255072.1515

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“…Finally, a note about the limits to what we do in this study. Although we contrast our theory of conditionals with several other prominent ones, we do not attempt to discuss all the views of conditionals to be found in the very large literature in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology (see Edgington, 1995; von Fintel, 2011; and Evans & Over, 2004 for good surveys in each of these fields). Nor do we do full justice to those theories that we do discuss; in particular, since the focus of the study is the role of conditionals in decision‐making and the implications of this for their truth values, we do not attempt a full evaluation of these theories against evidence concerning other uses of conditionals.…”

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Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success

Mellor

Bradley

2020

Mind & Language

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Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent from the truth of its antecedent, and (II) The conditional is true iff the inference would not make a true belief in the antecedent cause a false belief in the consequent.

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Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success

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Bradley

2020

Mind & Language

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“…extensively studied (e.g., Von Fintel, 2011). Children as young as 3 years of age show sophisticated use of conditional expressions (Scholnick & Wing, 1992), both as linguistic constructs and as a basis for reasoning.…”

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How do pre-adolescent children interpret conditionals?

Markovits

Chantal

2016

Psychon Bull Rev

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Studies examining children's basic understanding of conditionals have led to very different conclusions. On the one hand, conditional inference tasks suggest that young children are able to interpret familiar conditionals in a complex manner. In contrast, truth-table tasks suggest that before adolescence, children have limited (conjunctive) representations of conditionals. We hypothesized that the latter results are due to use of what are essentially arbitrary conditionals. To examine this, we gave a truth-table task using two kinds of conditional rules, Arbitrary and Imaginary categorical rules (If an animal is a bori, then it has red wings) to 9-and 12-yearolds. Results with the Arbitrary rules were consistent with those found in previous studies, with the most frequent interpretation being the Conjunctive one. However, among even the youngest children, the most frequent interpretation of the Imaginary categorical rules was the defective conditional, which is only found with much older adolescents with Arbitrary rules. These results suggest that working memory limitations are not an important developmental factor in how young children interpret conditional rules.

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Indicative Conditionals

Rooij¹,

Schulz²

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics

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In this chapter on indicative conditionals, we focus on two central challenges that any analysis of indicative conditionals must meet, instead of writing (yet another) general overview. The first is the challenge of accounting for the non‐monotonic inference pattern that conditionals in general display. The second is that of accounting for the interaction with probability claims (and adverbs of quantification in general) and the related triviality results.

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59. Conditionals

Cited by 6 publications

References 58 publications

Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success

Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success

How do pre-adolescent children interpret conditionals?

Indicative Conditionals

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