Conditionals, causality and conditional probability

R van Rooij, K Schulz - Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2019 - Springer
The appropriateness, or acceptability, of a conditional does not just 'go with'the
corresponding conditional probability. A condition of dependence is required as well (cf …

The adams family

I Douven, S Verbrugge - Cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
According to Adams's Thesis, the acceptability of an indicative conditional sentence goes by
the conditional probability of its consequent given its antecedent. We test, for the first time …

Difference-making conditionals and the relevant Ramsey test

H Rott - The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article explores conditionals expressing that the antecedent makes a difference for the
consequent. A 'relevantised'version of the Ramsey Test for conditionals is employed in the …

The evidential conditional

V Crupi, A Iacona - Erkenntnis, 2022 - Springer
This paper outlines an account of conditionals, the evidential account, which rests on the
idea that a conditional is true just in case its antecedent supports its consequent. As we will …

[HTML][HTML] Necessary and sufficient conditions

A Brennan - 2003 - plato.stanford.edu
A handy tool in the search for precise definitions is the specification of necessary and/or
sufficient conditions for the application of a term, the use of a concept, or the occurrence of …

[HTML][HTML] Between a conditional's antecedent and its consequent: Discourse coherence vs. probabilistic relevance

K Krzyżanowska, PJ Collins, U Hahn - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Reasoning with conditionals is central to everyday life, yet there is long-standing
disagreement about the meaning of the conditional. One example is the puzzle of so-called …

The logic of the evidential conditional

E Raidl, A Iacona, V Crupi - The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2022 - cambridge.org
In some recent works, Crupi and Iacona proposed an analysis of 'if'based on Chrysippus'
idea that a conditional holds whenever the negation of its consequent is incompatible with …

Conditionals and inferential connections: Toward a new semantics

I Douven, S Elqayam, H Singmann… - Thinking & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In previous published research (“Conditionals and Inferential Connections: A Hypothetical
Inferential Theory,” Cognitive Psychology, 2018), we investigated experimentally what role …

Ranking theory and conditional reasoning

N Skovgaard‐Olsen - Cognitive Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ranking theory is a formal epistemology that has been developed in over 600 pages in S
pohn's recent book The Laws of Belief, which aims to provide a normative account of the …

[PDF][PDF] Centering and the meaning of conditionals.

N Cruz, D Over, M Oaksford, J Baratgin - CogSci, 2016 - researchgate.net
The centering inference-p & q, therefore if p then q-is important in reasoning research
because it is logically valid for some accounts of conditionals (eg the material and the …