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Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect
Missing-link conditionals like “If bats have wings, Paris is in France” are generally felt to be unacceptable even though both clauses are true. According to the Hypothetical Inferential Theory, this is explained by a conventional requirement of an inferential connection between conditional clauses....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10225734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37255509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150550 |
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author | Bourlier, Maxime Jacquet, Baptiste Lassiter, Daniel Baratgin, Jean |
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description | Missing-link conditionals like “If bats have wings, Paris is in France” are generally felt to be unacceptable even though both clauses are true. According to the Hypothetical Inferential Theory, this is explained by a conventional requirement of an inferential connection between conditional clauses. Bayesian theorists have denied the need for such a requirement, appealing instead to a requirement of discourse coherence that extends to all ways of connecting clauses. Our experiment compared conditionals (“If A, C”), conjunctions (“A and C”), and bare juxtapositions (“A. C.”). With one systematic exception that is predicted by prior work in coherence theory, the presence or absence of an inferential link affected conditionals and other statement types in the same way. This is as expected according to the Bayesian approach together with a general theory of discourse coherence. |
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spelling | pubmed-102257342023-05-30 Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect Bourlier, Maxime Jacquet, Baptiste Lassiter, Daniel Baratgin, Jean Front Psychol Psychology Missing-link conditionals like “If bats have wings, Paris is in France” are generally felt to be unacceptable even though both clauses are true. According to the Hypothetical Inferential Theory, this is explained by a conventional requirement of an inferential connection between conditional clauses. Bayesian theorists have denied the need for such a requirement, appealing instead to a requirement of discourse coherence that extends to all ways of connecting clauses. Our experiment compared conditionals (“If A, C”), conjunctions (“A and C”), and bare juxtapositions (“A. C.”). With one systematic exception that is predicted by prior work in coherence theory, the presence or absence of an inferential link affected conditionals and other statement types in the same way. This is as expected according to the Bayesian approach together with a general theory of discourse coherence. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10225734/ /pubmed/37255509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150550 Text en Copyright © 2023 Bourlier, Jacquet, Lassiter and Baratgin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Bourlier, Maxime Jacquet, Baptiste Lassiter, Daniel Baratgin, Jean Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title | Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title_full | Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title_fullStr | Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title_full_unstemmed | Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title_short | Coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
title_sort | coherence, not conditional meaning, accounts for the relevance effect |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10225734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37255509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150550 |
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