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10.1016/j.annder.2010.02.010

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1573-0964

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“If you’d wiggled A then B would’ve changed”

Authors: Katrin Schulz
Publish Date: 2010/09/14
Volume: 179, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-251
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This paper deals with the truth conditions of conditional sentences It focuses on a particular class of problematic examples for semantic theories for these sentences I will argue that the examples show the need to refer to dynamic in particular causal laws in an approach to their truth conditions More particularly I will claim that we need a causal notion of consequence The proposal subsequently made uses a representation of causal dependencies as proposed in Pearl 2000 to formalize a causal notion of consequence This notion inserted in premise semantics for counterfactuals in the style of Veltman 1976 and Kratzer 1979 will provide a new interpretation rule for conditionals I will illustrate how this approach overcomes problems of previous proposals and end with some remarks on remaining questionsThis article is published under an open access license Please check the Copyright Information section for details of this license and what reuse is permitted If your intended use exceeds what is permitted by the license or if you are unable to locate the licence and reuse information please contact the Rights and Permissions team

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