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The Meaning of If
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Meaning of If af Justin Khoo, 9780190096700
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Engelsk
Sider:
372
ISBN-13:
9780190096700
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0190096705
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2022
Størrelse i cm:
14,6 x 22,0 x 2,7
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2022
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The Meaning of If

Engelsk
Hardback 2022
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Scholarship Online. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence.Despite its small stature, "if" occupies a central place both in everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to talk about hypothetical situations, "if" raises a host of thorny philosophical puzzles about language and logic. Addressing them requires tools from linguistics, logic, probability theory, and metaphysics. Justin Khoo uses these tools to navigate a maze of interconnected issues about conditionals, some of which include: the nature of linguistic communication, the relationship between logical and natural languages, and the relationship between different kinds of modality.According to Khoo''s theory, conditionals form a unified class of expressions which share a common semantic core that encodes inferential dispositions. Thus, rather than represent the world, conditionals are devices used to communicate how we are disposed to infer. Khoo shows that this theory can be extended to predict the probabilities of conditionals, as well as how different kinds of conditionals differ both semantically and pragmatically. Khoo''s book will make for a significant contribution to the literature on conditionals and should be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and computer scientists.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
372
ISBN-13:
9780190096700
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0190096705
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2022
Størrelse i cm:
14,6 x 22,0 x 2,7
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2022
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