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Suppose and Tell

- The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals
Af: Timothy Williamson Engelsk Paperback

Suppose and Tell

- The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals
Af: Timothy Williamson Engelsk Paperback
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What does ''if'' mean?It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes, from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the meaning of conditionals has been debated for thousands of years.Suppose and Tell brings together ideas from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to present a controversial new approach to understanding conditionals. It argues that in using ''if'' we rely on psychological heuristics, methods which are fast and frugal and mostly, but not always, reliable. As a result philosophers and linguists have been led astray in theorizing about conditionals through trusting faulty data generated by such methods and prematurely rejecting simple theories on the basis of merely apparent counterexamples. Williamson shows how one such simple theory of conditionals can explain the data, and draws wider implications for the nature of meaning and its non-transparency to native speakers, vagueness in thought and language, and the need for semantics to attend to the unreliable heuristics underlying our judgments.
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What does ''if'' mean?It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk conditionally for many purposes, from everyday decision-making to mathematical proof. Yet the meaning of conditionals has been debated for thousands of years.Suppose and Tell brings together ideas from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to present a controversial new approach to understanding conditionals. It argues that in using ''if'' we rely on psychological heuristics, methods which are fast and frugal and mostly, but not always, reliable. As a result philosophers and linguists have been led astray in theorizing about conditionals through trusting faulty data generated by such methods and prematurely rejecting simple theories on the basis of merely apparent counterexamples. Williamson shows how one such simple theory of conditionals can explain the data, and draws wider implications for the nature of meaning and its non-transparency to native speakers, vagueness in thought and language, and the need for semantics to attend to the unreliable heuristics underlying our judgments.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780192871046
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0192871048
Kategori: Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori
Udg. Dato: 6 okt 2022
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 232mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 6 okt 2022
Forfatter(e): Timothy Williamson
Forfatter(e) Timothy Williamson

Kategori Filosofi: epistemologi og vidensteori

ISBN-13 9780192871046

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 232mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 6 okt 2022

Oplagsdato 6 okt 2022

Forlag Oxford University Press