Conditionals /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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Table of 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.