Linguistique de l’écrit

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How to account for the oddness of missing-link conditionals

Igor Douven

pp. 1541-1554

Résumé

Conditionals whose antecedent and consequent are not somehow internally connected tend to strike us as odd. The received doctrine is that this felt oddness is to be explained pragmatically. Exactly how the pragmatic explanation is supposed to go has remained elusive, however. This paper discusses recent philosophical and psychological work that attempts to account semantically for the apparent oddness of conditionals lacking an internal connection between their parts.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Dutant Julien, Fassio Davide, Meylan Anne (2017) Truth & epistemic norms. Synthese 194 (5).

Pages: 1541-1554

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0756-7

Citation complète:

Douven Igor, 2017, How to account for the oddness of missing-link conditionals. Synthese 194 (5), Truth & epistemic norms, 1541-1554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0756-7.