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Conditional Reasoning - The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of If (Paperback)
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Conditional Reasoning - The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of If (Paperback)
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Conditional reasoning is reasoning that involves statements of the
sort If A (Antecedent) then C (Consequent). This type of reasoning
is ubiquitous; everyone engages in it. Indeed, the ability to do so
may be considered a defining human characteristic. Without this
ability, human cognition would be greatly impoverished. "What-if"
thinking could not occur. There would be no retrospective efforts
to understand history by imagining how it could have taken a
different course. Decisions that take possible contingencies into
account could not be made; there could be no attempts to influence
the future by selecting actions on the basis of their expected
effects. Despite the commonness and importance of conditional
reasoning and the considerable attention it has received from
scholars, it remains the subject of much continuing debate.
Unsettled questions, both normative and empirical, continue to be
asked. What constitutes normative conditional reasoning? How do
people engage in it? Does what people do match what would be
expected of a rational agent with the abilities and limitations of
human beings? If not, how does it deviate and how might people's
ability to engage in it be improved? This book reviews the work of
prominent psychologists and philosophers on conditional reasoning.
It describes empirical research on how people deal with conditional
arguments and on how conditional statements are used and
interpreted in everyday communication. It examines philosophical
and theoretical treatments of the mental processes that support
conditional reasoning. Its extensive coverage of the subject makes
it an ideal resource for students, teachers, and researchers with a
focus on cognition across disciplines.
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