Real conditionals / William Lycan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lycan, William G., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conditionals (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Logicians have written a great deal on the semantics of conditional sentences. This book contends that insufficient attention has been paid to the syntax of conditionals, as investigated by linguists.

Contents:

Contents; 1. The Syntax of Conditional Sentences; 2. Truth Conditions: The Event Theory; 3. Truth Conditions: Reality and Modus Ponens; 4. In Defense of Truth Value; 5. A Beautiful But False Theory of 'Even If'; 6. An Unbeautiful But Less Easily Refutable Theory of 'Even If'; 7. The 'Indicative'/'Subjunctive' Distinction; 8. The Riverboat Puzzle; Appendix: 'Nonconditional Conditionals' (with Michael L. Geis); Revisionary Postscript on Non-Conditional Conditionals; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03763-9

9786610904617

1-282-36580-0

1-280-90461-5

9786612365805

0-19-152927-3

0-19-151590-6

OCLC:

320904831