Abstract Indicative and subjunctive conditionals are in non-complimentary distribution: there conversational contexts at which both licensed (Stalnaker 1975; Karttunen Peters 1979; von Fintel 1998). This means we can ask an important, but under-explored, question: license both, what relations hold between the two? In this paper, I’ll argue for initially surprising conclusion: when attention is ...

language is a system of overlapping relations, in a way that the concept of a component would not be transferred except in relation with other components and elements. there are two types of relationship between the linguistic structures: verbal and semantic relationships which are intimately linked to each other, because the word holds the meaning and is a means to express it.  considering the...

In the first part, we recall the pure and simple notion of the truth-functional (alias material) conditional proposition, and then how it can occur in combination with other elements, creating more complex kinds of conditional assertion. We discuss the subtle distinction between conditional probability and the probability of a conditional. Finally, we explain the notion of a counterfactual cond...