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Suppose and Tell - The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals (Paperback)
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Suppose and Tell - The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals (Paperback)
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What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in
the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of
conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional
statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional
orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes,
from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the
meaning of conditionals has been debated for thousands of years.
Suppose and Tell brings together ideas from philosophy,
linguistics, and psychology to present a controversial new approach
to understanding conditionals. It argues that in using 'if' we rely
on psychological heuristics, methods which are fast and frugal and
mostly, but not always, reliable. As a result philosophers and
linguists have been led astray in theorizing about conditionals
through trusting faulty data generated by such methods and
prematurely rejecting simple theories on the basis of merely
apparent counterexamples. Williamson shows how one such simple
theory of conditionals can explain the data, and draws wider
implications for the nature of meaning and its non-transparency to
native speakers, vagueness in thought and language, and the need
for semantics to attend to the unreliable heuristics underlying our
judgments.
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