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the unruly syntactics, semantics, thematics, and pragmatics of "if"
This review of the work of prominent psychologists and philosophers on conditional reasoning provides empirical research on how people deal with conditional arguments, examining how conditional statements are used and interpreted in everyday communication.
Cover; Series; Conditional Reasoning; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Getting Started; 2. Conditionals; 3. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Conditional Reasoning; 4. Logic and Conditional Reasoning; 5. Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics in Conditional Reasoning; 6. Rule Checking; 7. Counterfactual Thinking 1; 8. Counterfactual Thinking 2; 9. Conditional Reasoning as Probabilistic Reasoning; 10. The Probability of the Conditional and the Conditional Probability; 11. Individual Differences; 12. Theoretical Accounts of Conditional Reasoning; 13. More Theoretical Accounts.
14. Final CommentsAppendices; References; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conditional Reasoning : The Unruly Syntactics, Semantics, Thematics, and Pragmatics of 'If'