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Logic --- Conditionals (Logic) --- Conditionnels (Logique) --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Conditionals (Logic). --- Conditionnel (logique)

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Conditionals (Logic) --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Logic --- Conditionnels (Logique)

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Conditionals are of two basic kinds, often called ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’. This book expounds and evaluates the main literature about each kind. It eventually defends the view of Adams and Edgington that indicatives are devices for expressing subjective probabilities, and the view of Stalnaker and Lewis that subjunctives are statements about close possible worlds. But it also discusses other views, e.g. that indicatives are really material conditionals, and Goodman's approach to subjunctives. The author, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of conditional sentences, distils many years' work and teaching into 'A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals', an authoritative treatment of the subject.

Conditionals (Logic). --- Conditionals (Logic) --- Language and languages --- Philosophy --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Logic --- Language and languages - Philosophy

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Of the four chapters in this book, the first two discuss (albeit in considerably modified form) matters previously discussed in my papers 'On the Logic of Conditionals' and 'Probability and the Logic of Conditionals', while the last two present essentially new material. Chapter I is relatively informal and roughly parallels the first of the above papers in discussing the basic ideas of a probabilistic approach to the logic of the indicative conditional, according to which these constructions do not have truth values, but they do have probabilities (equal to conditional probabilities), and the appropriate criterion of soundness for inferences involving them is that it should not be possible for all premises of the inference to be probable while the conclusion is improbable. Applying this criterion is shown to have radically different consequences from the orthodox 'material conditional' theory, not only in application to the standard 'fallacies' of the material conditional, but to many forms (e. g. , Contraposition) which have hitherto been regarded as above suspicion. Many more applications are considered in Chapter I, as well as certain related theoretical matters.

Conditionals (Logic) --- Probabilities. --- Conditionnels (Logique) --- Probabilités --- Counterfactuals (Logic) --- Probabilities --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Contrary-to-fact conditional --- Counterfactual conditionals --- Logic --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Conditionals (Logic). --- Counterfactuals (Logic). --- Probabilités

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A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.

Conditionals (Logic) --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Conditionals (Logic). --- Logic --- Theory of knowledge --- 165 --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 165 Kennisleer. Epistemologie --- Kennisleer. Epistemologie --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Epistemology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- PHILOSOPHY/General