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Lycan, William G. 2001. Real conditionals. Clarendon Press. 233 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

L. proposes a new theory of conditionals, explaining for the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic facts of conditional sentences. To motivate his semantics, he draws on evidence from the syntax; he exploits the notions of event, relevance and epistemic history; he rejects modus ponens as a valid inference rule; he defends a truth value instead of a probability account; he discusses the meaning of 'even if'; he defines the relationship between indicative and subjunctive conditionals and he presents his solution to the 'Riverboat Puzzle'.

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