Conditionals and inferential connections: A hypothetical inferential theory.

Volume: 101, Pages: 50 - 81
Published: Jan 9, 2018
Abstract
Intuition suggests that for a conditional to be evaluated as true, there must be some kind of connection between its component clauses. In this paper, we formulate and test a new psychological theory to account for this intuition. We combined previous semantic and psychological theorizing to propose that the key to the intuition is a relevance-driven, satisficing-bounded inferential connection between antecedent and consequent. To test our...
Paper Details
Title
Conditionals and inferential connections: A hypothetical inferential theory.
Published Date
Jan 9, 2018
Volume
101
Pages
50 - 81
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