What's in our minds when we throw an if/then sentence out there? How do we work out what worlds we may be talking about? In this week's episode, we talk about the semantics of conditionals: what an "if" looks like logically, why a simple logical arrow isn't enough to capture the complexities of conditionals, and how we change what possibilities we allow ourselves to think of based on what our "if" clause holds.
This is Topic #95!
This week's tag language: Kyrgyz!
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Sources:
The theory of conditionals here dates back to Kratzer's 1986 paper "Conditionals," which is where that quote at the end comes from: semanticsarchiv...
The idea of if-clauses as restrictors actually goes back to David Lewis' 1975 paper "Adverbs of Quantification," which you can find here: www.andrewmbail....
The presentation was based mostly on some of the usual semantic suspects:
web.mit.edu/fin...,
Seth Cable's course notes: people.umass.ed...
schoubye.org/te....
Crucial inspiration also from here books.google.ca... , in a chapter by Ilaria Frana titled "Modality in the Nominal Domain: The Case of Adnominal Conditionals."
There's also a series of videos on KZitem that explores the topic from a more philosophical point-of-view, and arrives at a different conclusion, but might still be of interest, starting here: • PHILOSOPHY - Language:...
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