In this paper we study selected argument forms involving counterfactuals and indicative conditionals under uncertainty. We selected argument forms to explore whether people with an Eastern cultural background reason differently about conditionals compared to Westerners, because of the differences in the location of negations. In a 2× 2 between-participants design, 63 Japanese university student...

In the paper “Relating Strong Behavioral Equivalences for Processes with Nondeterminism and Probabilities” to appear in Theoretical Computer Science, we present a comparison of behavioral equivalences for nondeterministic and probabilistic processes. In particular, we consider strong trace, failure, testing, and bisimulation equivalences. For each of these groups of equivalences, we examine the...

This paper presents and compares approaches for reasoning with relational probabilistic conditionals, i. e. probabilistic conditionals in a restricted first-order environment. It is well-known that conditionals play a crucial role for default reasoning, however, most formalisms are based on propositional conditionals, which restricts their expressivity. The formalisms discussed in this paper ar...

We compare supports A ↑ B (i.e. p r (B |A)> p r (B)) with conditionals A → B and prove that the basic properties of supports are exactly the opposite to those of conditionals.

I take up the four issues considered by Johnson-Laird, Byrne and Girotto in their reply to Politzer (2007). Based on the conceptual clarification which they adduce, it seems that the disagreement can be settled about the first one (truth functionality) and can be attenuated about the second one (the paradoxes of material implication). However, I maintain and refine my criticisms on the last two...

Abstract The present study is concerned with complex sentences known as concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. It examines the coding strategies used in protasis of three subtypes – viz. scalar, alternative, and universal global sample 17 languages, thus complementing previous their formal properties European languages ( Haspelmath & König 1998 ). results include...