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Conditionals

Title
Conditionals / Nicholas Rescher.
Author
Rescher, Nicholas.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007], ©2007.

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246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This book by philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This approach, argues Rescher, makes it easier to understand how conditionals actually function in our thought and discourse. In its concern with what language theorists call pragmatics - the study of the norms and principles governing our use of language in conveying information - Conditionals steps beyond the limits of logic as traditionally understood and moves into the realm claimed by theorists of artificial intelligence as they try to simulate our actual information-processing practices."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Conditionals (Logic)
  • Knowledge, Theory of
Note
  • "A Bradford Book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.
Contents
1. Fundamentals -- 2. Matters of aspect -- 3. Modes of implication -- 4. Conditional complications -- 5. Doxastic implication and plausibility -- 6. Inferentially insuperable boundaries and homogeneous conditionals -- 7. Counterfactual conditionals and their problematic nature -- 8. Salience and questioner's prerogative -- 9. On validating counterfactuals -- 10. Further complications of counterfactuality -- 11. Some logical features of counterfactuals -- 12. Variant analyses of counterfactuals -- 13. Historical counterfactuals -- 14. Per impossibile counterfactuals and reductio ad absurdum conditionals -- 15. Problems with possible worlds.
ISBN
  • 0262182599 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780262182591 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006027951
OCLC
  • OCM71241897
  • SCSB-5336561
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Columbia University Libraries