Abstract This paper explores the connective ‘because’, based on idea that ‘ C because A ’ implies acceptance/truth of antecedent as well consequent , and additionally makes a difference for consequent. To capture this difference-making ‘relevantized’ version Ramsey Test conditionals is employed takes to be relevant in following sense: conditional true/accepted state $$\sigma $$ <mml:math xmlns:...

In this paper, I offer a unified semantic analysis of subjunctive conditionals that purports to account for their truth and felicity-conditions. The proposal is centered on the claim that the temporal morphology that occurs in subjunctive conditionals in several genetically unrelated languages plays an essential role in the composition of their meaning. I will argue for a time-dependent notion ...

(1) is a counterfactual conditional. Utterances of counterfactual conditionals are typically accompanied by the information that their antecedents are false. But what is the source of that information? Two arguments show that this information is neither an entailment nor a presupposition of the counterfactual. First, counterfactual conditionals can be used to argue for the falsity of their ante...

The topic of conditionals is an extremely important one. It lies at the bottom of so many philosophical issues (causation, dispositions, lawlikeness, etc.), and current theories of conditionals seem to fairly ground these issues. On the other hand, the topic has become ever messier. Philosophical opinions grossly diverge, not only about de tails, but also about such fundamental questions as to ...

In this paper we present a new approach to evaluate indicative conditionals with respect to some background information specified by a logic program. Because the weak completion of a logic program admits a least model under the three-valued Lukasiewicz semantics and this semantics has been successfully applied to other human reasoning tasks, conditionals are evaluated under these least L-models...

This study examines how the syntactic complexity of English conditionals and first language transfer influence Chinese ESL learners’ acquisition order of conditionals. The differences in English and Chinese conditional constructions are presented in the paper. Brown’s (1973) Cumulative Complexity principle is employed to determine the syntactic complexity of six conditionals: present factual, p...