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Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics
Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative ‘if’ is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a fallible cognitive heuristic, called the Suppositional Proce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35194257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z |
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description | Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative ‘if’ is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a fallible cognitive heuristic, called the Suppositional Procedure. Williamson’s Suppositional Conjecture has it that the Suppositional Procedure is humans’ primary way of prospectively assessing conditionals. This paper raises some doubts on the Suppositional Procedure and Conjecture. |
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spelling | pubmed-88531522022-02-18 Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics Berto, Francesco Synthese Original Research Timothy Williamson has defended the claim that the semantics of the indicative ‘if’ is given by the material conditional. Putative counterexamples can be handled by better understanding the role played in our assessment of indicatives by a fallible cognitive heuristic, called the Suppositional Procedure. Williamson’s Suppositional Conjecture has it that the Suppositional Procedure is humans’ primary way of prospectively assessing conditionals. This paper raises some doubts on the Suppositional Procedure and Conjecture. Springer Netherlands 2022-02-17 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8853152/ /pubmed/35194257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
title_full | Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
title_fullStr | Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
title_full_unstemmed | Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
title_short | Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
title_sort | williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8853152/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35194257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03518-z |
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