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What does 'if' mean? Timothy Williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking, which is central to human cognitive life. He argues that in using 'if' we rely on psychological heuristics, fast and frugal methods which can lead us to trust faulty data and prematurely reject simple theories.



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. This book 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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Suppose and Tell

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What does if mean timothy williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking which is central to human cognitive life he argues that in using if we rely on psychological heuristics fast and frugal methods which can lead us to trust faulty data and prematur 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

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Thought Experiments

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Presents the general theory of the thought experiment this work analyses a variety of thought experiments ranging from aesthetics to zoology and explores what thought experiments are how they work and what their positive and negative aspects are it also integrates advances in experimental psyc 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 juli 2020

Aantal pagina's: 288

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Timothy Williamson

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press

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Product breedte: 158 mm

Product hoogte: 21 mm

Product lengte: 240 mm

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Verpakking breedte: 158 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm

Verpakking lengte: 240 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 562 g

EAN: 9780198860662

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