Probabilistic theories of reasoning need pragmatics too: Modulating relevance in uncertain conditionals

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2034-2042

  Fugard, Andrew J B ^a   Pfeifer, Niki ^b   Mayerhofer, Bastian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditionals; Interpretation; Probability; Reasoning; Relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952537949     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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