Causal relevance of conditionals: semantics or pragmatics?

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Publication date 08-2022
Journal Linguistic Vanguard
Volume | Issue number 8 | s4
Pages (from-to) 363-370
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract In this paper we argue that the antecedent of a (non-analytic) conditional is causally relevant to the consequent, … at least if standard background conditions hold. Natural counterexamples to the causal relevance analysis are argued to be cases where the standardly assumed background condition(s) do not hold.
Document type Review article
Note In special issue: Natural Language Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning, volume 2.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0030
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85129836498
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