Conditionals.
by
 
Rescher, Nicholas.

Title
Conditionals.

Author
Rescher, Nicholas.

ISBN
9780262282321

Personal Author
Rescher, Nicholas.

Physical Description
1 online resource (261 pages)

Contents
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
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1316078-1001BC199 .C56 -- R47 2007 EBEbrary E-Books