
Modals and Conditionals
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- Cover
- Contents
- General Preface
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introducing Chapter 1
- 1 What Must and Can Must and Can Mean
- 1.1 Must and can are relational
- 1.2 Must and can in a premise semantics
- 1.3 Inconsistent premise sets
- 1.4 Structuring premise sets
- Introducing Chapter 2
- 2 The Notional Category of Modality
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Expressing modality in German
- 2.3 Basic notions
- 2.4 Grades of possibility
- 2.5 Modals without duals
- 2.6 Root versus epistemic modals
- 2.7 Approaching norms and ideals with root modals
- 2.8 Practical reasoning
- 2.9 Conditionals
- 2.10 Conclusion
- Introducing Chapter 3
- 3 Partition and Revision: The Semantics of Counterfactuals
- 3.1 A straightforward analysis seems to fail
- 3.2 Escaping through atomism
- 3.3 Counterexamples and amendments
- 3.4 Back to the original analysis
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Introducing Chapter 4
- 4 Conditionals
- 4.1 Grice
- 4.2 Gibbard's proof
- 4.3 The decline of material implication
- 4.4 Probability conditionals
- 4.5 Epistemic conditionals
- 4.6 Gibbard's proof reconsidered: silent operators
- 4.7 Conditional propositions after all?
- Introducing Chapter 5
- 5 An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought
- 5.1 What lumps of thought are
- 5.2 How lumps of thought can be characterized in terms of situations
- 5.3 A semantics based on situations
- 5.3.1 A metaphysics for situations
- 5.3.2 Ingredients for a situation semantics
- 5.3.3 The logical properties and relations
- 5.3.4 Persistence
- 5.3.5 Sentence denotations
- 5.4 Counterfactual reasoning
- 5.4.1 Some facts about counterfactuals
- 5.4.2 Truth-conditions for counterfactuals
- 5.4.3 We forgot about lumps
- 5.4.4 The formal definitions
- 5.5 Representing non-accidental generalizations
- 5.5.1 Non-accidental generalizations: a first proposal
- 5.5.2 Hempel's Paradox and Goodman's Puzzle
- 5.6 Negation
- 5.6.1 In search of an accidental interpretation
- 5.6.2 Negation and restrictive clauses
- 5.6.3 Negation and counterfactual reasoning
- 5.7 Conclusion
- Introducing Chapter 6
- 6 Facts: Particulars or Information Units?
- 6.1 Worldly facts
- 6.2 Facts and the semantics of the verb to know
- 6.3 Facts that exemplify propositions
- 6.4 Reliability in knowledge ascriptions
- 6.5 Facts and counterfactuals
- 6.6 Propositional facts and natural propositions
- References
- Index
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