Conditionals.
by
Rescher, Nicholas.
Title
:
Conditionals.
Author
:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN
:
9780262282321
Personal Author
:
Rescher, Nicholas.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents
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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.
Abstract
:
A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.
Local Note
:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Conditionals (Logic).
Knowledge, Theory of.
Genre
:
Electronic books.
Electronic Access
:
Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1316078-1001 | BC199 .C56 -- R47 2007 EB | Ebrary E-Books |