What if ? Questions About Conditionals

Author: Edgington D.

Source: Mind & Language, Volume 18, Number 4, September 2003 , pp. 380-401(22)

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Abstract:

Section 1 briefly examines three theories of indicative conditionals. The Suppositional Theory is defended, and shown to be incompatible with understanding conditionals in terms of truth conditions. Section 2 discusses the psychological evidence about conditionals reported by Over and Evans (this volume). Section 3 discusses the syntactic grounds offered by Haegeman (this volume) for distinguishing two sorts of conditional.

Document Type: Original article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00233

Affiliations: 1: Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Publication date: 2003-09-01