A Compositional Semantics for ‘Even If’ Conditionals

Vidal, Mathieu

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“…Other conditional logics have been developed along these lines to avoid conjunctive sufficiency also for indicative conditionals. For instance, Vidal (2017) builds on Nute (1980) but introduces a two-stage implementation of the Ramsey test that brackets the current beliefs and disbeliefs in the antecedent before evaluating the consequences of adding the antecedent to one’s belief set. Similarly, Rott (2019) has developed a logic for an expanded notion of the Ramsey test to ensure that the antecedent is relevant for the consequent, which he suggests could either be part of the truth or acceptability conditions of indicative conditionals.…”

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Conditionals and the hierarchy of causal queries.

Skovgaard-Olsen¹,

Stephan²,

Waldmann³

2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Recent studies indicate that indicative conditionals like "If people wear masks, the spread of Covid-19 will be diminished" require a probabilistic dependency between their antecedents and consequents to be acceptable (Skovgaard-Olsen et al., 2016). But it is easy to make the slip from this claim to the thesis that indicative conditionals are acceptable only if this probabilistic dependency results from a causal relation between antecedent and consequent.According to Pearl ( 2009), understanding a causal relation involves multiple, hierarchically organized conceptual dimensions: prediction, intervention, and counterfactual dependence. In a series of experiments, we test the hypothesis that these conceptual dimensions are differentially encoded in indicative and counterfactual conditionals. If this hypothesis holds, then there are limits as to how much of a causal relation is captured by indicative conditionals alone. Our results show that the acceptance of indicative and counterfactual conditionals can become dissociated. Furthermore, it is found that the acceptance of both is needed for accepting a causal relation between two co-occurring events. The implications that these findings have for the hypothesis above, and for recent debates at the intersection of the psychology of reasoning and causal judgment, are critically discussed. Our findings are consistent with viewing indicative conditionals as answering predictive queries requiring evidential relevance (even in the absence of direct causal relations). Counterfactual conditionals in contrast target causal relevance, specifically. Finally, we discuss the implications our results have for the yet unsolved question of how reasoners succeed in constructing causal models from verbal descriptions.

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“…2See, e.g., Cruz et al (2016), Skovgaard-Olsen, Singmann, et al 2017, ), Vidal and Baratgin (2017), and Krzyżanowska et al (2017).…”

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Conditionals and the hierarchy of causal queries.

Skovgaard-Olsen¹,

Stephan²,

Waldmann³

2021

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Mathieu Vidal (2017) presents a formal semantics of if and of even, and a compositional formal semantics of even if. According to him, "both the focused element of even and its complement are parts of a more general set."…”

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Concessive Conditionals Without Even if and Nonconcessive Conditionals with Even if

Gomes

2019

Acta Anal

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This paper investigates whether even if A, B is pragmatically polysemic, so that a nonconcessive conditional may have even if, and whether concessive conditionals, pragmatically defined, can fail to have even if or a non-temporal still. Different paraphrases are used to help elucidate pragmatic meanings. A theory of the pragmatic meanings of concessive and implicative conditionals is presented. The semantic meaning of even if and the question of whether concessive conditionals imply the truth of their consequents are also discussed.

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“…Let us now focus on Vidal's [2017b] alternative approach. Vidal defines a restrictedly connexive logic by building on [Vidal, 2017a] and uses a type of formula-annotated selection function. 17 Due to that, several points of criticism of Kapsner and Omori [2017] hold also for Vidal's logic, such as the lack of a purely structural correspondence theory.…”

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“…In contrast to formula-annotated selection functions as described above, this type of selection function takes worlds and sets of formulas as arguments rather than worlds and formulas.18 For the formal details we rely here on Vidal's [2017a] rather than his [2017b] Vidal [2017a]. also puts additional restrictions on the neutralization and expansion function, which we do not discuss here.…”

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Connexive Conditional Logic. Part I

Wansing

Unterhuber

2018

LLP

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In this paper, first some propositional conditional logics based on Belnap and Dunn's useful four-valued logic of first-degree entailment are introduced semantically, which are then turned into systems of weakly and unrestrictedly connexive conditional logic. The general frame semantics for these logics makes use of a set of allowable (or admissible) extension/antiextension pairs. Next, sound and complete tableau calculi for these logics are presented. Moreover, an expansion of the basic conditional connexive logics by a constructive implication is considered, which gives an opportunity to discuss recent related work, motivated by the combination of indicative and counterfactual conditionals. Tableau calculi for the basic constructive connexive conditional logics are defined and shown to be sound and complete with respect to their semantics. This semantics has to ensure a persistence property with respect to the preorder that is used to interpret the constructive implication.

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A Compositional Semantics for ‘Even If’ Conditionals

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Conditionals and the hierarchy of causal queries.

Conditionals and the hierarchy of causal queries.

Concessive Conditionals Without Even if and Nonconcessive Conditionals with Even if

Connexive Conditional Logic. Part I

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