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Possible worlds semantics for indicative and counterfactual conditionals? : a formal philosophical inquiry into Chellas-Segerberg semantics /

Conditional structures lie at the heart of the sciences, humanities, and everyday reasoning. It is hence not surprising that conditional logics - logics specifically designed to account for natural language conditionals - are an active and interdisciplinary area. The present book gives a formal and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Unterhuber, Matthias
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2013.
Colección:Logos (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Conditional structures lie at the heart of the sciences, humanities, and everyday reasoning. It is hence not surprising that conditional logics - logics specifically designed to account for natural language conditionals - are an active and interdisciplinary area. The present book gives a formal and a philosophical account of indicative and counterfactual conditionals in terms of Chellas-Segerberg semantics. For that purpose a range of topics are discussed such as Bennett's arguments against truth value based semantics for indicative conditionals.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110323665
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