UPC: 9780190096700 | The Meaning of If (Hardcover)
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Despite its small stature if occupies a central place both in everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to talk about hypothetical situations if raises a host of thorny philosophical puzzles about language and logic. Addressing them requires tools from linguistics logic probability theory and metaphysics. Justin Khoo uses these tools to navigate a maze of interconnected issues about conditionals some of which include: the nature of linguistic communication the relationship between logical and natural languages and the relationship between different kinds of modality. According to Khoo s theory conditionals form a unified class of expressions which share a common semantic core that encodes inferential dispositions. Thus rather than represent the world conditionals are devices used to communicate how we are disposed to infer. Khoo shows that this theory can be extended to predict the probabilities of conditionals as well as how different kinds of conditionals differ both semantically and pragmatically. Khoo s book will make for a significant contribution to the literature on conditionals and should be of interest to philosophers linguists and computer scientists.
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