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169Aboutness and ModalityProceedings of the 23Rd Amsterdam Colloquium. 2022.In this paper I would like to offer a new framework for hypothetical reasoning, with the goal of predicting what scenarios we consider when we interpret a conditional or causal claim (such as a sentence containing the word ‘because‘). The idea is that when we interpret a conditional or causal claim, we identify a part of the world to change and imagine changing that. Sentences are about parts of the world: when we interpret a conditional antecedent or because clause, we allow the part of the wor…Read more
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Semantics |
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Causation |
Conditionals |
Causal Modeling |
Truthmaker Semantics |