Data Semantics and the Pragmatics of Indicative Conditionals

Veltman, F.J.M.M.

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“…Factual possibility: ¬ Viv kind Pat forgive :Deontic possibility Previous accounts have postulated some of the 10 sets of possibilities (e.g., Veltman, 1986), but to our knowledge no other theory postulates all of them. Table 4 summarizes the 10 sets, giving examples of both factual and deontic conditionals.…”

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Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference.

Johnson‐Laird

Byrne²

2002

Psychological Review

653

759

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The authors outline a theory of conditionals of the form If A then C and If A then possibly C. The 2 sorts of conditional have separate core meanings that refer to sets of possibilities. Knowledge, pragmatics, and semantics can modulate these meanings. Modulation can add information about temporal and other relations between antecedent and consequent. It can also prevent the construction of possibilities to yield 10 distinct sets of possibilities to which conditionals can refer. The mental representation of a conditional normally makes explicit only the possibilities in which its antecedent is true, yielding other possibilities implicitly. Reasoners tend to focus on the explicit possibilities. The theory predicts the major phenomena of understanding and reasoning with conditionals.

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Section: Deontic Conditionalsmentioning

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Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference.

Johnson‐Laird

Byrne²

2002

Psychological Review

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759

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“…Consider a conceivable alternative according to which all conditionals would be interpreted uniformly with respect to the speaker's epistemic state, as is the case, for instance, in Data Semantics (Veltman, 1985(Veltman, , 1986Crouch, 1993). The analog of Data Semantics in the present framework would correspond to the assumption that all sentences are evaluated is uniformly with respect to ∼.…”

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Conditional Truth and Future Reference

Kaufmann¹

2005

Journal of Semantics

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“…For present purposes, this amounts to modifying the conditional semantics from Definition 5 as follows. Veltman (1986) and Warmbrōd (1981bWarmbrōd ( , 1983 make this observation but propose pragmatic views about the kind of infelicity that results.…”

Section: Conditional Semanticsmentioning

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A Uniform Theory of Conditionals

Starr

2013

J Philos Logic

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A uniform theory of conditionals is one which compositionally captures the behavior of both indicative and subjunctive conditionals without positing ambiguities. This paper raises new problems for the closest thing to a uniform analysis in the literature (Stalnaker 1975) and develops a new theory which solves them. I also show that this new analysis provides an improved treatment of three much-discussed phenomena (the import-export equivalence, reverse Sobel-sequences and disjunctive antecedents). While these results concern central issues in the study of conditionals, broader themes in the philosophy of language and formal semantics are also engaged here. This new analysis exploits a dynamic conception of meaning where the meaning of a symbol is its potential to change an agent's mental state (or the state of a conversation) rather than being the symbol's content (e.g. the proposition it expresses). The analysis of conditionals is also built on the idea that the contrast between subjunctive and indicative conditionals parallels a contrast between revising and consistently extending some body of information.

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Data Semantics and the Pragmatics of Indicative Conditionals

Cited by 45 publications

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Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference.

Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference.

Conditional Truth and Future Reference

A Uniform Theory of Conditionals

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