Conditionals, Inference, and Evidentiality

Logic & Cognition Workshop at ESSLLI 2012

Karolina Krzyżanowska1 ; Sylvia Wenmackers1 ; Igor Douven1 ; Sara Verbrugge2

Others  :  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-883/paper4.pdf
PID  :  43430

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

At least many conditionals seem to convey the existence ofa link between their antecedent and consequent. We draw on a recently proposed typology of conditionals to revive an old philosophical idea according to which the link is inferential in nature. We show that the proposal has explanatory force by presenting empirical results on two