Real conditionals /

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Author / Creator:Lycan, William G.
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4530721
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ISBN:0199242070
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface, Acknowledgements
  • 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 Refuatable Theory of 'Even If'
  • 7. The 'Indicative'/'Subjunctive' Distinction
  • 8. The Riverboat Puzzle
  • Appendix: 'Nonconditional Conditionals' (with Michael L. Geis)
  • Revisionary Postscript on Nonconditional Conditionals
  • Bibliography, Index