Inferential Conditionals and Evidentiality

Inferential Conditionals and Evidentiality

Many conditionals seem to convey the existence of a link between their antecedent and consequent. We draw on a recently proposed typology of conditionals to argue for an old philosophical idea according to which the link is inferential in nature. We show that the proposal has explanatory force by pr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of logic, language, and information language, and information, 2013-07, Vol.22 (3), p.315-334
Hauptverfasser: Krzyżanowska, K., Wenmackers, S., Douven, I.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Abductive reasoning
Conditional probabilities
Education
Indicative conditionals
Inference
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Language
Linguistic typology
Logic
Philosophy
Post hoc
Semantics
Syntactical consequents
Theoretical typology
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Zusammenfassung:Many conditionals seem to convey the existence of a link between their antecedent and consequent. We draw on a recently proposed typology of conditionals to argue for 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 the evidential meaning of certain English and Dutch modal expressions.
ISSN:0925-8531
1572-9583
DOI:10.1007/s10849-013-9178-4