Conditional reasoning : the unruly syntactics, semantics, thematics, and pragmatics of "if" / Raymond S. Nickerson.

By: Nickerson, Raymond S [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: viii, 460 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190202996; 0190202998; 9780190249137; 0190249137Subject(s): Reasoning (Psychology) | Reasoning (Psychology)DDC classification: 153.4/3 LOC classification: BF442 | .N53 2015
Contents:
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.
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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.

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