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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) --- Model theory --- Conditionnels (Logique) --- Théorie des modèles

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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.

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Logic --- Philosophy of language --- Mathematical logic --- Conditionals (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Probabilities --- Conditionnels (Logique) --- Raisonnement --- Probabilités --- Counterfactuals (Logic) --- Argumentation --- Ratiocination --- Reason --- Thought and thinking --- Judgment (Logic) --- Probability --- Statistical inference --- Combinations --- Mathematics --- Chance --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Risk --- Contrary-to-fact conditional --- Counterfactual conditionals --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Probabilities. --- Reasoning. --- Conditionals (Logic). --- Counterfactuals (Logic). --- Probabilités

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This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

Logic --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Conditionals (Logic) --- Truth --- Belief and doubt --- Psychology --- Conditionnels (Logique) --- Vérité --- Croyance et doute --- Psychologie --- 800.1 --- Conviction --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Soul --- Mental health --- Conditional statements (Logic) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Doubt --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Will --- Agnosticism --- Rationalism --- Taalfilosofie --- Belief and doubt. --- Psychology. --- Truth. --- 800.1 Taalfilosofie --- Conditionals (Logic). --- Vérité --- Arts and Humanities