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The Meaning of If (Hardcover)
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The Meaning of If (Hardcover)
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Despite its small stature, "if" occupies a central place both in
everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to
talk about hypothetical situations, "if" raises a host of thorny
philosophical puzzles about language and logic. Addressing them
requires tools from linguistics, logic, probability theory, and
metaphysics. Justin Khoo uses these tools to navigate a maze of
interconnected issues about conditionals, some of which include:
the nature of linguistic communication, the relationship between
logical and natural languages, and the relationship between
different kinds of modality. According to Khoo's theory,
conditionals form a unified class of expressions which share a
common semantic core that encodes inferential dispositions. Thus,
rather than represent the world, conditionals are devices used to
communicate how we are disposed to infer. Khoo shows that this
theory can be extended to predict the probabilities of
conditionals, as well as how different kinds of conditionals differ
both semantically and pragmatically. Khoo's book will make for a
significant contribution to the literature on conditionals and
should be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and computer
scientists.
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