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Douven, Igor, Elqayam, Shira, Singmann, Henrik and Wijnbergen-Huitink, Janneke van (2020) Conditionals and inferential connections : toward a new semantics. Thinking And Reasoning, 26 (3). pp. 311-351. doi:10.1080/13546783.2019.1619623 ISSN 1354-6783 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2019.1619623
Abstract
In previous published research (“Conditionals and Inferential Connections: A Hypothetical Inferential Theory,” Cognitive Psychology, 2018), we investigated experimentally what role the presence and strength of an inferential connection between a conditional’s antecedent and consequent plays in how people process that conditional. Our analysis showed the strength of that connection to be strongly predictive of whether participants evaluated the conditional as true, false, or neither true nor false. In this article, we re-analyse the data from our previous research, now focussing on the semantics of conditionals rather than on how they are processed. Specifically, we use those data to compare the main extant semantics with each other and with inferentialism, a semantics according to which the truth of a conditional requires the presence of an inferential connection between the conditional’s component parts.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Conditionals (Logic), Logic, Semantics, Indeterminacy (Linguistics) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Thinking And Reasoning | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1354-6783 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 311-351 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13546783.2019.1619623 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Thinking And Reasoning on 22 Jun 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13546783.2019.1619623 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 May 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2020 | ||||||||
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