Conditionals / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conditionals (Logic).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

1 - Fundamentals

2 - Matters of Aspect

3 - Modes of Implication

4 - Conditional Complications

5 - Doxastic Implication and Plausibility

6 - Inferentially Insuperable Boundaries and Homogeneous Conditionals

7 - Counterfactual Conditionals and Their Problematic Nature

8 - Salience and Questioner's Prerogative

9 - On Validating Counterfactuals

10 - Further Complications of Counterfactuality

11 - Some Logical Features of Counterfactuals

12 - Variant Analyses of Counterfactuals

13 - Historical Counterfactuals

14 - Per impossibile Counterfactuals and Reductio ad absurdum Conditionals

15 - Problems with Possible Worlds

Conclusion

Notes

References

Name Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

"A Bradford Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09883-7

9786612098833

0-262-28232-1

1-4294-7716-4

OCLC:

614506641