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| Subjunctive conditionals: Subjunctive conditionals are conditional sentences that express what would happen if a condition were met, but the condition is not true or is unlikely to be true. They are also known as counterfactual conditionals. See also Counterfactual conditionals, Counterfactuals._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nelson Goodman on Subjunctive Conditionals - Dictionary of Arguments
II 11 Subjunctive conditionals/counterfactual conditionals/Goodman: it is not the case that science could do without irreal conditional clauses. >Counterfactual conditionals. II 17 There are not only disposition predicates like "soluble" or "combustible" but also "red" and others. Ordinary predicates play a role. >Dispositions. II 18 As truth functions all subjunctive conditionals are true, of course, since their antecedents are false. If you wanted to check them empirically, they were not irrational anymore, since the antecedent would be made true. >Truth functions, >Truthmakers. II 35 Everything that was in my pocket on May 8 was made of silver. Law: although the supposed unifying principle is generally true and perhaps fully confirmed by observation of all cases, it cannot constitute a subjunctive conditional, because it describes a random fact and it is no law. >Laws, >Lawlikeness, >Observation. And apparently no purely syntactic criterion can be useful, because the most specific description of individual facts can be brought into a shape that has any desired degree of syntactic generality. >Criteria._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
G IV N. Goodman Catherine Z. Elgin Reconceptions in Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences, Indianapolis 1988 German Edition: Revisionen Frankfurt 1989 Goodman I N. Goodman Ways of Worldmaking, Indianapolis/Cambridge 1978 German Edition: Weisen der Welterzeugung Frankfurt 1984 Goodman II N. Goodman Fact, Fiction and Forecast, New York 1982 German Edition: Tatsache Fiktion Voraussage Frankfurt 1988 Goodman III N. Goodman Languages of Art. An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, Indianapolis 1976 German Edition: Sprachen der Kunst Frankfurt 1997 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27