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Autore |
Bennett Jonathan <1930-> |
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Titolo |
A philosophical guide to conditionals [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan Bennett |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-159704-X |
9786612007224 |
1-282-00722-X |
0-19-153174-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (402 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Conditionals (Logic) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction --2. The Material Condition: Grice --3. The Material Condition: Jackson --4. The Equation --5. The Equation Attacked --6. The Subjectivity of Indicative Conditionals --7. Indicative Conditionals Lack Truth Values --8. Uses of Indicative Conditionals --9. The Logic of Indicative Conditionals --10. Subjunctive Conditionals: First Steps --11. The Competition for 'Closest' --12. Unrolling from the Antecedent Time --13. Forks --14. Reflections on Legality --15. Truth at the Actual World --16. Subjunctive Conditionals and Probability --17. 'Even If ... ' --18. Backward Subjunctive Conditionals --19. Subjunctive Conditionals and Time's Arrow --20. Support Theories --21. The Need for Worlds --22. Relating the Two Kinds of Conditional --23. Unifying the Two Kinds of Conditional. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Conditionals are of two basic kinds, often called ‘indicative’ and ‘subjunctive’. This book expounds and evaluates the main literature about each kind. It eventually defends the view of Adams and Edgington that indicatives are devices for expressing subjective probabilities, and the view of Stalnaker and Lewis that subjunctives are statements about close possible worlds. But it also discusses other |
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