Nickerson, Raymond S.,

Conditional reasoning : the unruly syntactics, semantics, thematics, and pragmatics of "if" / Raymond S. Nickerson. - viii, 460 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-423) and index.

Getting started -- Conditionals -- Experimental approaches to the study of conditional reasoning -- Logic and conditional reasoning -- Syntactics, semantics and pragmatics in conditional reasoning -- Rule checking -- Counterfactual thinking -- Counterfactual thinking 2 -- Conditional reasoning as probabilistic reasoning -- The probability of the conditional and the conditional probability -- Individual differences -- Theoretical accounts of conditional reasoning -- More theoretical accounts -- Final comments.

9780190202996 0190202998 9780190249137 0190249137

2014043057


Reasoning (Psychology)
Reasoning (Psychology)

BF442 / .N53 2015

153.4/3