Abstract We propose a new account of indicative conditionals, giving acceptability and logical closure conditions for them. start from Adams’ Thesis: the claim that simple equals corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false refuted by empirical research. To fix it, we submit, need relevance constraint: accept $$\varphi \rightarrow \psi$$ <mml:math xml...

In this paper I will argue that, in general, where the evidence supports two theories equally, the simpler theory is not more likely to be true and is not likely to be nearer the truth. In other words simplicity does not tell us anything about model bias. Our preference for simpler theories (apart from their obvious pragmatic advantages) can be explained by the facts that humans are known to el...

In this article I address the use of optative (appearing alone or in contrast with subjunctive indicative) Iliad 2,1-493 (the part before Catalogue Ships starts). This book describes Agamemnon's (failed) attempts to rouse army and Odysseus' intervention restore damage caused by blunder(s). these lines there are about 110 forms, they provide a small but reliable corpus instances different constr...

objective: the purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and possible variables on changing the diagnosis of mood disorder patients to schizophrenia.  method: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 in razi psychiatric hospital. the sample consisted of all the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with the diagnosis of mood disor...

The goal of this paper is to explore an on-line processing theory of discourse comprehension which makes use of the grammatical construct of modality. Previous investigations of discourse processing have relied upon studies using the integrative device of anaphora (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). A close examination of the kinds of discourses previously investigated reveals that the sorts of inferen...

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Mourning or memorial jewelry constituted one of the most emblematic traditions death rituals in cultural history Great Britain since medieval times and even earlier. They symbolized power human mind soul to face death, honor memory dead keep it alive intact time during great challenges life. Since end eighteenth century long nineteenth century, addition being indicative values social developmen...

Conditionals (in particular indicatives) give rise to stand-offs that have become well known from Gibbard’s initial Sly Pete example. The stand-offs can be seen as evidence for the context-sensitivity of (indicative) conditionals and arguably do not involve disagreement. I claim that the latter feature lends credibility to an indexical treatment of indicatives. 1. Conditionals in stand-off envi...

Suppositions can be introduced in either the indicative or subjunctive mood. There are also two types of judgments that may initiated by suppositions sort: qualitative (binary) and quantitative (numerical) ones. The former about whether a given proposition is acceptable latter how it is. We systematically explicate relationships between canonical representatives each four available theories. Fo...