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

Author/creator Nickerson, Raymond S. author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionviii, 460 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-423) and index.
LCCN 2014043057
ISBN9780190202996 hardcover
ISBN0190202998 hardcover

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BF442 .N53 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold