Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic
The Stoics not only analyzed sentences showing to be clear conditionals. They also reviewed other kinds of sentences related to the conditional that are not exactly conditionals, for example, the pseudo-conditionals and the causal assertibles. In this paper, I try to argue that the Stoic account of...
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| description | The Stoics not only analyzed sentences showing to be clear conditionals. They also reviewed other kinds of sentences related to the conditional that are not exactly conditionals, for example, the pseudo-conditionals and the causal assertibles. In this paper, I try to argue that the Stoic account of such sentences reveals that certain problematic issues that contemporary cognitive science is concerned with, such as the ways the conditionals can be expressed or the pragmatic phenomenon of the conditional perfection, were already studied by the Stoics, and that they even gave their solutions to those problems. To do that, I resort to the semantic analysis of models usually made by the mental models theory, and use it as a methodological tool. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23f6e68eff4f49bfbcda80ed2ceee9652022-12-22T00:43:35ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112016-09-0120310.5007/808-1711.2016v20n3p41727052Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logicMiguel López-Astorga0Institute of Humanistic Studies "Juan Ignacio Molina" University of TalcaThe Stoics not only analyzed sentences showing to be clear conditionals. They also reviewed other kinds of sentences related to the conditional that are not exactly conditionals, for example, the pseudo-conditionals and the causal assertibles. In this paper, I try to argue that the Stoic account of such sentences reveals that certain problematic issues that contemporary cognitive science is concerned with, such as the ways the conditionals can be expressed or the pragmatic phenomenon of the conditional perfection, were already studied by the Stoics, and that they even gave their solutions to those problems. To do that, I resort to the semantic analysis of models usually made by the mental models theory, and use it as a methodological tool.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/43489causal assertibleconditionalmental models theorypseudo-conditionalStoic logic |
| spellingShingle | Miguel López-Astorga Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology causal assertible conditional mental models theory pseudo-conditional Stoic logic |
| title | Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic |
| title_full | Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic |
| title_fullStr | Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic |
| title_short | Pseudo-conditionals and causal assertibles in Stoic logic |
| title_sort | pseudo conditionals and causal assertibles in stoic logic |
| topic | causal assertible conditional mental models theory pseudo-conditional Stoic logic |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/43489 |
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